The book was republished outside Bharat in 1982 by sphenisciformes seabird Classics. The book includes thirty two stories, set within the fictional city of Malgudi, situated in South Bharat. Every of the stories portrays an aspect of life in Malgudi. The ny Times represented the virtue of the book as “everyone within the book appears to own a capability for responding to the standard of his explicit hour. It’s AN art we’d like to review and revive.”