Two Books by Ruskin Bond (Dust on the Mountain, The Kitemaker)
Requirements: MOBI/ePub reader, 1.37MB | 369kb
Overview: Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children’s authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children’s literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
Genre: Fiction | Children/YA
Dust on the Mountain: Collected Stories: Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classic ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’, ‘The Room of Many Colours’, ‘Dust on the Mountain’ and ‘Time Stops at Shamli’. Features the stories: Untouchable, The Coral Tree, Going Home, The Daffodil Case, The Eyes Have It, The Night Train at Deoli, The Woman on Platform No. 8, and many more.
The Kitemaker: Stories: Filled with characteristic warmth, gentle humour and keen observations on daily life, this collection brings together some of the finest short fiction by one of India’s best-loved authors.
Download Instructions:
Dust on the Mountain: http://corneey.com/wLhyhG
The Kitemaker: http://corneey.com/wLhyhX
Mirror:
Dust on the Mountain: http://corneey.com/wLhyh4
The Kitemaker: http://corneey.com/wLhyh7
Links updated 23 Feb 17
