The Room on the Roof
$26.06
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2017
Summary
A timeless story of love and friendship set in India.
Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part of Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals, and other aspects of Indian life, Rusty is enchanted—and is lost forever to the prim proprieti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141386768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141386762 |
| Author: | Ruskin Bond |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The Originals |
| Audience Age: | 11-15 |
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About The Author
Ruskin Bond
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 1992, 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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