The Room On The Roof Book Review

The room on the roof book.

The room on the roof book review.

After reading room on the roof i am looking forward to reading a few of ruskin bond s other stories. The room on the roof is ruskin bond s masterpiece of adolesce. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in 1957. The room on the roof begins thus.

Well the book is staged against a small indian town. The room on the roof is a novel written by ruskin bond it was bond s first literary venture. It covers the events of a teenager english boy rusty he is an orphan and. The light spring rain rode on the wind into the trees down the road.

It brought an exhilarating freshness to the air a smell of earth a scent of flowers. He wrote this novel when he was in england for four years struggling for both. The novel revolves around rusty an orphaned seventeen year old anglo indian boy living in dehradun due to his guardian mr harrison s strict ways he runs away from his home to live with his indian friends. It brought a smile to the eyes of the boy on the road.

Read 492 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. I wonder why children of my generation don t read more of his books.