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 bhuvaneswari (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.