The Very Best of Ruskin Bond, the Writer on the Hill: Selected Fiction and Non-Fiction
by Ruskin Bond
One of India's finest and most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond has been
putting pen to paper for well over six decades. Since The Room on the
Roof his award winning debut novel which introduced readers to the
unforgettable Rusty, the orphan from Dehradun - Bond has created
characters both charming and eccentric, which have endured in popular
imagination. And, in what is perhaps his most towering achievement, Bond
has brought to pulsing life the mountains, valleys and rivers of
Garhwal, as well as the quiet magic of small, tucked away places, in
book after book The Writer on the Hill is a comprehensive
selection of Bond's fiction and nonfiction, both popular and little
known. In Masterji, a young man meets his old Hindi teacher on a train
platform, in handcuffs. In the excerpt from The Room on the Roof, Rusty
stands up to his bullying guardian. Man and Leopard describes, in
mesmerising prose, a heartbreaking encounter between man and the wild.
And, in Once upon a Mountain Time, Bond creates a charming portrait of
his little patch of earth in Mussoorie. A tribute to one of the
most popular and loved writers of India, The Writer on the Hill is also a
celebration of the quiet, unhurried life, lived at ones own pace. This
volume will delight Bond's fans everywhere.
putting pen to paper for well over six decades. Since The Room on the
Roof his award winning debut novel which introduced readers to the
unforgettable Rusty, the orphan from Dehradun - Bond has created
characters both charming and eccentric, which have endured in popular
imagination. And, in what is perhaps his most towering achievement, Bond
has brought to pulsing life the mountains, valleys and rivers of
Garhwal, as well as the quiet magic of small, tucked away places, in
book after book The Writer on the Hill is a comprehensive
selection of Bond's fiction and nonfiction, both popular and little
known. In Masterji, a young man meets his old Hindi teacher on a train
platform, in handcuffs. In the excerpt from The Room on the Roof, Rusty
stands up to his bullying guardian. Man and Leopard describes, in
mesmerising prose, a heartbreaking encounter between man and the wild.
And, in Once upon a Mountain Time, Bond creates a charming portrait of
his little patch of earth in Mussoorie. A tribute to one of the
most popular and loved writers of India, The Writer on the Hill is also a
celebration of the quiet, unhurried life, lived at ones own pace. This
volume will delight Bond's fans everywhere.