The Room on the Roof
1956 book by Ruskin Bond / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond.
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Author | Ruskin Bond |
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Original title | The Room on the Roof |
Cover artist | Clarf Bishop Dean |
Country | India |
Language | English |
Series | Ruskin's famous Novels |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Coward-McCann (original)[1] Penguin Books (current) |
Publication date | 1956 |
Media type | Paperback |
Pages | 160 pages (first edition)[1] |
ISBN | 0140107835 |
OCLC | 1579534 |
Preceded by | N/A |
Followed by | Vagrants in the Valley |
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It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen[2] and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957.[2][3] 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.