Swami and Friends

Swami and Friends

Cover of Malgudi School days 2009 Puffin Classics edition
Author	R. K. Narayan
Cover artist	R. K. Laxman
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Published	1935 Hamilton
Publication place	India
Media type	Print
Pages	459
ISBN	978-0-09-928227-3
OCLC	360179
Followed by	The Bachelor of Arts

Swami and Friends is the first of a series of novels written by R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English language novelist from India. The novel, the first book Narayan wrote, is set in British India in a town called Malgudi. The second and third books in the trilogy are The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher.

The novel follows a ten-year-old schoolboy, Swaminathan, and his attempts to court the favour of a much wealthier schoolboy, Rajam.

Malgudi Schooldays is a slightly abridged version of Swami and Friends, and includes two additional stories featuring Swami from Malgudi Days and Under the Banyan Tree.^[1]