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The Book: Name: The Dark Room
Author: R. K. Narayan
Number of Pages: 214
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication: January 1981

Classification: Fiction

Summary: In the quiet town of Malgudi, in the 1930's, there lived Savitri and her husband, Ramani. They lived with their three children, Babu, Kamala, and Sumati. Savitri was raised with certain traditional values that came into internal conflict when she took Ramani, a modern executive, as her husband. Savitri has endured a lot of humiliations from her temperamental husband and she always puts up with his many tantrums. To find solace and escapism, she takes refuge in \'the dark room', a musty, unlit, storeroom in the house. But when Ramani takes on a beautiful new employer, Savitri finds out that her husband has more than a professional interest in the woman. So, at first, she tries to retreat to her dark room. But she realises that hiding in there won't help. So she tries to......

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Approximate Word Count: 798
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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