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| name = The Guide
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| caption = First US edition
| author = [[R. K. Narayan]]
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| country = [[India]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Philosophical novel]]
| publisher = [[Viking Press]] (US)<br>[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] (UK)
| release_date = [[1958 in literature|1958]]
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]] & [[paperback]])
| pages = 220 pp
| isbn = 0-670-35668-9
| isbn_note = (first American edition)
| oclc = 65644730
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'''''The Guide''''' is a [[1968 in literature|1958]] novel written in [[English language|English]] by the [[India]]n author [[R. K. Narayan]]. Like most of his works the novel is based on [[Malgudi]], the fictional town in [[South India]]. The novel describes the transformation of the [[protagonist]], Raju, from a [[tour guide]] to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest [[Asceticism|holy men]] of India.

The novel brought Narayan the 1960 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for English, by the [[Sahitya Akademi]], India's National Academy of Letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi_awards.jsp|title=Sahitya Akademi Awards listings|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]], Official website}}</ref>

==Plot summary==
Railway Raju (nickname) is a disarmingly [[corrupt]] tour guide who is famous among tourists. He falls in love with a beautiful dancer, Rosie, the wife of [[archaeologist]] Marco. They have come to Malgudi, the fictional town in South India, as tourists. Marco does not approve of Rosie's passion for [[dancing]]. Rosie, encouraged by Raju, decides to follow her dreams and start a dancing career. In the process they become close to each other. On learning of their relationship, Marco leaves Rosie in Malgudi and goes back to Madras alone. Rosie turns up at the home of Raju and they start living together. But Raju's mother does not approve of their relationship, and leaves them. Raju becomes Rosie's stage manager and soon, with the help of Raju's [[marketing]] tactics, Rosie becomes a successful dancer. Raju, however, develops an inflated sense of self-importance and tries to control her life and he wants to build as much wealth as possible. Raju gets involved in a case of [[forgery]] of Rosie's signature and gets a two-year sentence despite Rosie's best efforts to save him. After completing the sentence, Raju passes through a village, Mangal where he is mistaken for a [[sadhu]] (a spiritual guide). Since he does not want to return in disgrace to [[Malgudi]], he decides to stay in an abandoned temple, close to the village. There he plays the role of a Sadhu to perfection delivering sermons and discourses to the villagers and solving their day to day problems and disputes. Soon there is a [[famine]] in the village and villagers somehow get the idea that Raju will keep a [[Fasting|fast]] in order to make it rain. Raju confesses the entire truth about his past to Velan, who had first discovered Raju in the temple and had developed a complete faith in him like the rest of the villagers. The confession does not make a difference to Velan and Raju decides to go on with the fast. With media publicizing his fast, a huge crowd gathers (much to Raju's resentment) to watch him fast. In the morning of the eleventh day of fasting, he goes to the riverside as part of his daily ritual. He feels that the rain is falling in the hills in the distance and he sags down in water. The ending of the novel leaves it to the reader to guess whether Raju died, and whether it rained.

==Adaptations==
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The film ''Guide'' was released in 1965, based on the novel. It was directed by [[Vijay Anand (filmmaker)|Vijay Anand]]. It starred [[Dev Anand]] as Raju, [[Waheeda Rehman]] as Rosie, and [[Leela Chitnis]] in the lead roles. The film's score was composed by [[S. D. Burman]]. The movie's ending differs from that of the novel, in which the fate of some characters remain unanswered.

A 120-minute U.S. version was written by Pearl S. Buck, and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski. The film was screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, 42 years after its release.

The novel was also adapted into a play in 1968.<ref>[http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5840/The-Guide Playbill from 1968 production] accessed 16 June 2013</ref> The play was profiled in the [[William Goldman]] book ''[[The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway]]''.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990117080516/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ebrians/anglophone/narayan.html Study guide]
* [http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/narayan-guide.html An analysis]
* [http://www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/article-17382307.html Some thoughts about the novel at ''Let's talk about Bollywood'']

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