UNHURRIED TALES by Ruskin Bond
Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas brings together, for the very first time, Ruskin Bond's favourite (and finest) novellas. The stories in this book include Time Stops at Shamli (written in 1956 and published for the first time in 1987); The Blue Umbrella, which has been a bestseller for the last forty years; Angry River, which was a longer work when it was first written; Bus Stop, Pipalnagar; Night of the Leopard; The Last Tiger and Tales of Fosterganj, his latest novella, which was published in 2013. These stories speak of a world that has long vanished, but it is a world that has lost none of its power to enchant. Whether we are accompanying Sita on her perilous journey down the angry river or Bisnu as he gets the better of a dangerous leopard, whether we delight in Binya's joy at owning her blue umbrella or are saddened by the fate of the last tiger, whether we laugh uproariously at the antics of the eccentric guests at the 'hotel' in Shamli, get involved in the adventures of the boys in Pipalnagar or plunge into the various goings-on in the 'backwater' of Fosterganj, we are always entertained, always charmed. All the stories unwind in an unhurried way, even those that are filled with death-defying thrills and spills, and it is this quality that enables us to sink into them and experience to its fullest the magic of the fiction that Ruskin Bond has spun out of the hills and small towns of India for over sixty years.
Bond, Ruskin: - 'Ruskin Bond' has written novels, memoirs, short story collections and books of essays and poetry. His recent books include 'Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography', 'I Was the Wind Last Night: New and Collected Poems'; 'A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills', 'Friends in Wild Places: Birds, Beasts and Other Companions', 'A Little Book of Happiness', 'A Little Book of Serenity 'and 'A Little Book of Love and Companionship', as well as the popular classics 'Room on the Roof '(winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), 'A Flight of Pigeons', 'The Blue Umbrella', 'Time Stops at Shamli', 'Night Train at Deoli', 'Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra '(winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award) and 'Rain in the Mountains'. He has co-edited 'Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life '(with Namita Gokhale) and 'Prankenstein: The Book of Crazy Mischief '(with Jerry Pinto). He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789386021885 |
| ISBN 10 | 9386021889 |
| Title | UNHURRIED TALES |
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Aleph Book Company |
| Year published | 2017-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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