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Classic Ruskin Bond

Classic Ruskin Bond

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Ruskin Bond
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.This collection of six novels sparkles with the quiet charm and humanity that are the hallmarks of Ruskin Bond’s writing. Evoking nostalgia for a time gone by, these poignant chronicles of life in India’s hills and small towns describe the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts, highlighting the uneasy reconciliation of dreams and destiny. The six novels included in the collection are: ‘The Room on the Roof’, ‘Vagrants in the Valley’, ‘Delhi Is Not Far’, ‘A Flight of Pigeons’, ‘The Sensualist’, and ‘A Handful of Nuts’.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Sep/2010

ISBN: 9780143414667

Length : 496 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Classic Ruskin Bond

Complete And Unabridged

Ruskin Bond

.This collection of six novels sparkles with the quiet charm and humanity that are the hallmarks of Ruskin Bond’s writing. Evoking nostalgia for a time gone by, these poignant chronicles of life in India’s hills and small towns describe the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts, highlighting the uneasy reconciliation of dreams and destiny. The six novels included in the collection are: ‘The Room on the Roof’, ‘Vagrants in the Valley’, ‘Delhi Is Not Far’, ‘A Flight of Pigeons’, ‘The Sensualist’, and ‘A Handful of Nuts’.

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Born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, which was written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley and A Flight of Pigeons) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.

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