The Financial Expert Author:R.K. Narayan This is a novel whose setting is Malgudi, the fictional southern Indian city known to readers of Narayan's many novels about it.Its protagonist sits in a public park, dispensing financial advise to all comers. He is trying to teach capitalism and the importance of "interest" to a pre-capitalist society. He is also a crook. Narayan makes him both... more » sympathetic and ghastly, much like our proper bankers.« 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.