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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] --><br />
| name = Grandmother's Tale<br />
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| image = File:GrandmothersTale.jpg<br />
| image_caption = First edition<br />
| author = [[R. K. Narayan]]<br />
| illustrator = [[R. K. Laxman]]<br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Novella]]<br />
| publisher = [[Indian Thought Publications]]<br />
| release_date = 1992<br />
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| media_type = Print<br />
| pages = <br />
| isbn = 81-85986-15-0<br />
| preceded_by = [[The World of Nagaraj]]<br />
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'''''Grandmother's Tale''''' is a [[novella]] by [[R. K. Narayan]] with illustrations by his brother [[R. K. Laxman]] published in 1992 by [[Indian Thought Publications]].<ref name="Comedies of Suffering">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/nnp/narayan-tale.htm | author=Shashi Tharoor | author-link=Shashi Tharoor |title=Comedies of Suffering|date=September 11, 1994|publisher=[[NY Times]]|accessdate=2009-08-30}}</ref> It was subsequently released outside India as '''''The Grandmother's Tale''''' by [[Heinemann (book publisher)|Heinemann]] in 1993.<ref name="Independent, book review">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--long-short-and-beautifully-formed-afternoon-raag--amit-chaudhuri-heinemann-1399-pounds-the-grandmothers-tale--r-k-narayan-heinemann-999-pounds-1484192.html|title=BOOK REVIEW: The Grandmother's Tale' - R K Narayan: Heinemann, 9.99 pounds |date=July 11, 1993|publisher=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=2009-08-30 | location=London | first=Karl | last=Miller}}</ref> This book, more than any others, exhibits Narayan's experimental tendencies.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Narayana|first=Chandra K.|date= September 22, 1993|title=Grandmother's Tale|journal=Studies in Short Fiction|issn=0039-3789|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14759323.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026120818/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14759323.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2012}}</ref> The book is about Narayan's great grandmother who is forced to travel far and wide in search of her husband, as narrated to him by his grandmother.:}<ref name="Independent, book review" /><br />
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