My Trees in The Himalayas

DETAILS: 

• Publisher: Rupa Publication Pvt. Ltd.
  
• Author Ruskin Bond
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 135
  
• Cover: Paperback
  
• Weight 120 gm
  
• Edition: 2018
  
• ISBN: 9788193669525

BACK OF THE BOOK

It is Christmas time, and a poor couple struggle to buy each other gifts. A wealthy lawyer encounters a ragged beggar, and tries to set him on the right path. A little boy realizes that he will never be able to speak his mother tongue again after his country is invaded by another. A happy story, woven around a mere folder, set in the lobby of a fashionable hotel. The evergreen story of the nightingale who sacrificed herself for a rose.

Selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond, this is a collection of stories from writers like 0. Henry, Saki, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekov, Alphonse Daudet and others.

Full of moments that range from joyous to heartbreaking, My Trees in the Himalayas will leave you mesmerized with its tales of the simple joys of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ruskin Bond has been writing for over sixty years, and now has over 120 titles in print—novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, anthologies and books for children. His first novel, The Room on the Roof received the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. He has also received the Padma Shri (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2014) and two awards from Sahitya Akademi—one for his short stories and another for his writings for children. In 2012, the Delhi government gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India, and now lives in Mussoorie with his adopted family.