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 especiallycelebrated for the unforgettable misfits, dreamers, small-time con artists, rapscallions,thieves and drifters who populate it. For the first time ever, A Gallery of Rascals bringstogether the most memorable rogues to feature in Ruskin Bond's fiction. A few brand newstories-‘A Man Called Brain', ‘Sher Singh and the Hot-water Bottle', ‘Crossing the Road'-headline this collection and rub shoulders with much-loved tales like ‘The Thief's Story',‘The Boy Who Broke the Bank', ‘Tigers for Dinner' and ‘A Case for Inspector Lal'. Thrillingand effortlessly readable, the thirty stories in this book show exactly why Ruskin Bond'sfiction is irresistible.
About the Author
Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of shortstories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the JohnLlewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops atShamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), AngryRiver, The Blue Umbrella, Delhi is Not Far, Rain in the Mountains, Tigers for Dinner,Tales of Fosterganj, A Gathering of Friends, Upon An Old Wall Dreaming, Small Towns,Big Stories and Unhurried Tales.Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999,a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012 and the PadmaBhushan in 2014.
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