Books written by RK Narayanan are easy reads. They are light hearted, down to earth and deals with the lives of ordinary people in India. The characters and situations are what we can identify with.
The Guide a simple story of the tangled lives of a guide and dancer. It tells a tale of a shopkeeper turned guide who falls in love with dancer. As fate should have it the dancer is married, to man who more interest in cave paintings than his wife's talent. The guide on the other hand has a genuine interest in the dancers talent. His praise and admiration for her leads from one thing to another, and finally they become lovers.
The guide makes her a successful dancer but their lives become complicated. He is incarcerated for a while, while she continues to prosper. The guide becomes a yogi, upon his release, not by choice but by circumstances.
RK Narayanan has written this simple story very nicely. Although at certain parts, I felt he was rushing to tell his story. All in all a nice short story.
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