A novel from this country begins with the protagonist recalling a shave he paid for with "the hard-earned coins of his jail life.
A novel from this country begins with the protagonist recalling a shave he paid for with "the hard-earned coins of his jail life." That novel from this country ends with the protagonist "sagg[ing] down" a ter saying "I can feel it coming up under my feet, up my legsÂ—." A novelist from this country wrote a series of journals that became the book My Dateless Diary while writing a novel whose story is told to Velan. A protagonist from this country falls in love with the dancer Rosie and possibly starves to death a ter being forced to fast to end a drought. The protagonist of a novel from this country loses three sons to a new tannery, is treated by the doctor Kenny, names her  rst daughter Irrawaddy, and is married to the farmer Nathan. The author of Nectar in a Sieve was from this country, as was a man who set novels including The Painter of Signs and The Guide in its  ctional town of Malgudi (mal-GUH-dee). For 10 points, name this country home to Kamala Markandaya (mar-kahn-"DIE"-uh) and R. K. Narayan (nah-"RYE"-un).
A novel from this country begins with the protagonist recalling a shave he paid for with "the hard-earned coins of his jail life.
Republic of India [or Bharat Ganarajya]