Author: Ruskin Bond
Original title: the room on the roof
Country: India
Language: English
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: coward-McCann(originally)Penguin Books(current)
Publication date:1956
Media type:paperback
Pages: 160 pages(first edition)
Isbn: 0140107834
Oclc: 1579534
Preceded by N/A
Followed by: vagrants in the valley
The room on the roof Is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture . The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphanated sixtenn-year-old Anglo Indian boy living In Dehra-dun. Due to his guardian, Mr Harrison's strict ways, he runs away from his home to live with his Indian friends. Ruskin Bond, the gold writer of this story with a good story base wrote this novel when he was a small then of the age of seventeen and had won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957 . He is a good and dedicated writer and I think he liked to wrote stores on adventure and his passion is writing b9oks of whichs persistence has showed up good works he has written many books .
The main protaganist of the BOOK is a 16 year old Anglo- Indian . He ran from his house to India against Mr. John Harrison's wishes .
Kishen was a boy living In Rusky's neighbourhood
Mrs Meens kapoor was kishens mother .
Mr kapoor was kishen's father .
Somi was a Punjab boy was Rusky's friend .
Ranbur was a muscular boy and the best wrestler in the bazaar.
Sure was a bespectacled and bony boy and Somi' s friend .
Prickley heat: was suri' s dog.
Upon the realease of the BOOK it received positive reviews .Santha Rama Ray of the New York Times commented "like an India bazaar itself, the book is filled with the smells, sights, sounds, confusion and subtle organisation of ordinary Indian life ". Is its critical appreciation
