"The people are as real as the situations, and the narrative brutally honest. So we have Indians clipped of their pretentions, and the soul-stifling atmosphere of modern India presented in claustrophobic actuality. Despite that the stories are not without irony, wit and good bawdy humour." --Khushwant Singh ..more
Goodbye to Elsa is a richly entertaining satirical novel. It is at the same time an acute study of the loneliness of the individual trying to relate himself to his fellow men.
"Entirely original and elegantly written, Goodbye to Elsa is a deadly serious comedy. In many ways this brilliant novel is a hymn to women . . . ." —The Listener (London) ..more
The Chessmaster and His Moves is a most ambitious novel, and like most of Raja Rao’s writing, rooted in Indian tradition, thought and sensibility. ..more
An incomparable critical study of Indian English literature, offering both a qualitative perspective and a measuring rod at a time of great growth in the output of Indian writing in English. ..more
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