The Financial Expert Author:R. K. Narayan This novel was the first of his works published in the United States in the early 1950s. The setting is Narayan`s fictitious village Malgudi. The title character is Margayya who starts as a usurer and graduates to Ponzi schemer. What drives him is not merely avarice but the urge to keep moving, to keep activity between himself and other people. ... more »Excellent psychological analysis of greed, fear, and anger.« less
One of several books set in the fictional town of Malgudi. One learns much rich detail about life in modern India by way of following the cautionary tale of the financial expert who suddenly becomes wealthy.