Ruskin Bond

Gebundenes Buch

A Gallery of Rascals

Beschreibung

Ruskin Bond is the most addictive and entertaining writer in modern Indian literature. The author of over a hundred novels and short-story collections, his fiction is especially celebrated for the unforgettable misfits, dreamers, small-time con artists, rapscallions, thieves and drifters who populate it.

Autor

"Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children's books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of 23, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart fromthree years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, withhis adopted family."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Repro India Limited
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9789388292740
• ISBN-10: 938829274X
• Artikelnr.: 57847283