Landour Days: A Writer's Journey - Hardcover

Bond, Ruskin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670911704 ISBN 13: 9780670911707

Publisher: Viking, 2002

Synopsis

The events are small in themselves: the daily happenings in Landour, the birds and flowers that each season brings and the eccentricities of friends and family.

About this title

Synopsis:

'The habit of keeping a diary has led me into trouble more than once,' writes Ruskin Bond in the introduction to this journal of a year in his hometown of Landour, Mussoorie. Bond is an inveterate diarist, but over the years he finds that the nature of what he wants to record has changed, for 'In the autumn of my life, I grow reflective.' The events are small in themselves: the daily happenings in Landour, the birds and flowers that each season brings, and the eccentricities of friends and family. Landour itself is a magical world--where every month has its own flower, every walker his own style, and the countryside is filled with a beauty all its own--though uninvited guests will intrude and evenings at the Savoy Bar are not always as peaceful as they might be ...But in his mind Bond ranges further afield. He ponders on the experience of being a writer, on writers he has known and those he loves reading, and on critics, handwriting and typewriters. Filled with warmth and gentle humour, this book captures the timeless rhythm of life in the mountains, and the serene wisdom of one of India's best loved writers.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670911704
• ISBN 13: 9780670911707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256