Room On The Roof Book Cover

Code rusty ruskin bond was born in kasauli in himachal pradesh in 1934 this is a story about an orphaned boy from the anglo indian descent living in a european colony in dehradun with his guardian mr.

Room on the roof book cover.

After reading room on the roof i am looking forward to reading a few of ruskin bond s other stories. Ruskin bond is an indian author of british descent. Ba honours english course. The room on the roof begins thus.

This easy caste system was a major problem and ther were. Subsequent page references appear in the text are from this edition. He is considered to be an icon among indian writers and children s authors and a top novelist. It brought an exhilarating freshness to the air a smell of earth a scent of flowers.

Ruskin bond the room on the roof collected fiction new delhi. Room on the roof is a story of a youth written by ruskin bond in his 17 s. The room on the roof book. He wrote his first novel the room on the roof when he was seventeen which won john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in 1957.

This story depicts the immaturity of the youths and how they live in this bewildering world of orthodox people. The room on the roof is ruskin bond s masterpiece of adolesce. As i mentioned before he can be seen in the let it be documentary film banging the hammer during the filming of the beatles recording maxwell s silver. It brought a smile to the eyes of the boy on the road.

The light spring rain rode on the wind into the trees down the road. After reading the entire book i believe the individual that is standing by the entrance to the roof and as i said looks to me like woody allen is mal evans apple executive. Coward mccann original penguin books current. The room on the roof.

I wonder why children of my generation don t read more of his books.