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Disatisfied with his strict guardian and the declining European community in Dehra Dun, Rusty, an Anglo-Indian boy runs away to live with Indian friends
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Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written a number of novellas, essays, poems and children's books. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.
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- PublisherPenguin Books India
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0140107835
- ISBN 13 9780140107838
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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