Mr. Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, the Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma : Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Honoring the centennial of the birth of the forefather of modern Indian fiction, a second omnibus edition contains a trio of novels, set in the fictional town of Malgudi and written after India achieved independence, and features Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, and Waiting for the Mahatma, in which a drifter's encounter with a beautiful young woman inspires him to follow Gandhi.