A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom.R.K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raja finds sweet companionship and peace.
- ISBN10 0670712604
- ISBN13 9780670712601
- Publish Date 25 August 1983 (first published 28 February 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 175
- Language English