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Two book recommendations for the yearend. Both by Ruskin Bond. I read both of these one after the other almost a year back and was just going through my Kindle to check them out again.
Unhurried Tales is a collection of the longer, well-known stories by Ruskin Bond. Time Stops at Shamli is one of my favourites from this collection. I couldn’t believe it when I found out that he wrote this story in 1956, and it went unpublished for thirty years till 1987. And then, you can’t help cheer for the little girl Sita in The Angry River which is about a girl caught in a boat of sorts on a flooded river (probably the Alakananda as I remember during my travels to Uttarakhand how fierce it is). Of course, there is the famous Blue Umbrella which I have read many times. And there is a good story about a leopard and many about Pipalnagar.
The other collection which has many of Ruskin Bond’s lesser known stories is The Writer on the Hill. The common theme is stories about villages and towns set in the lower Himalayas, and about rustic characters from an era that seems (and is, perhaps) history. But just the same, that’s why it makes good reading, when you get lost in that world from the bygone past.
Check out the reviews I had written for these two books on Amazon after I had finished them.
This collection of novellas or long stories take the reader into the life of small villages and towns in the lower Himalaya with their motley set of characters and stories around rivers, leopards, train and bus trips, walks to school and so much more. Each story is unique in which not much but something happens that leaves us entertained or smiling, perhaps with some thoughts. A wonderful treasure!
A collection of fiction some of which regular readers of Ruskin Bond are sure to have read elsewhere, and some that I hadn’t read. The nonfiction collection especially contains soulful pieces that I didn’t know existed. A collector’s book!