 In 1990 , he published his next novel , The World of Nagaraj , also set in Malgudi . Narayan 's age shows in this work as he appears to skip narrative details that he would have included if this were written earlier in his career . Soon after he finished the novel , Narayan fell ill and moved to Madras to be close to his daughter 's family . A few years after his move , in 1994 , his daughter died of cancer and his granddaughter <unk> ( Minnie ) started taking care of him in addition to managing Indian Thought Publications . Narayan then published his final book , Grandmother 's Tale . The book is an autobiographical novella , about his great @-@ grandmother who travelled far and wide to find her husband , who ran away shortly after their marriage . The story was narrated to him by his grandmother , when he was a child . 
