Life in the hills

Bond at his best with the choicest selection of his stories.

July 24, 2014 05:21 pm | Updated 05:21 pm IST

THE VERY BEST OF RUSKIN BOND, The Writer on the Hill, Rupa, Rs. 295

THE VERY BEST OF RUSKIN BOND, The Writer on the Hill, Rupa, Rs. 295

The story: This book has the best of Bond. You get to meet Masterji on a railway platform. Revisit "The Room on the Roof" and cheer when Rusty stands up to his bullying guardian. Encounters between man and beast have become rather common these days. But only Bond can, with his mesmerising prose bring out the pathos of the situation. Read about it in “Man and leopard”. The story of Binya's blue umbrella is at once sad and happy .

It is a known fact that Bond loves Mussoorie and the images he conjures up with his vivid prose make us, his readers, want a glimpse of his heaven.

About the author:

Ruskin Bond has been writing for over six decades. His first book, "The Room on the Roof" won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial prize awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. Some of his other books are "Funny Side Up", "The Adventures of Rusty", "Tigers Forever" and "The Blue Umbrella". He wrote "Vagrants in the Valley", as a sequel to "The Room on the Roof". His interest in the paranormal led him to write stories like "A Season of Ghosts".

Since 1963, he has lived in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills.

THE VERY BEST OF RUSKIN BOND, The Writer on the Hill, Rupa, Rs. 295

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