"The Guide" - R. K. Narayan

This book is again written in RKN's typical picturesque style. That makes reading it all the more exciting.
This book is about a person called "Railway Raju", who is a shrewd and currupt tourist guide thinking only of his profit most of the time. He lives by his wits and loves a extravagant lifestlyle when he can afford it. He falls in love with a beautiful dancer. More by chance than by skill he seduces her away from her husband, a lonely writer who is obsessed by the local rock carvings, and transforms her into a public celebrity.
Raju makes and looses fortune and finds himself in Jail - and though a series of hilarious and ironic circumstances becomes one of India's great holy man.
This is a nice book to read, a lot of vocab to pick up and a nice narration style to immitate. Just go ahead and read it once, you will like it.