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Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is dissatisfied with life in the dec lining European community at Dehra Dun Unhappy with the strict ways of his Englis h guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals and ot her aspects of Indian life, Rusty is enchanted...and is lost forever to the prim proprieties of the European community... Like an Indian bazaar itself, the book is filled with the smells, sights, sounds, confusion and subtle organization of ordinary Indian life Santha Rama Rau in the New York Times Book Review Has a specia l magic of its own Herald Tribune Book Review Considerable charm and spontaneity San rancisco Chronicle Very engaging The Guardian Moving in its simplicity and underlying tenderness a novel of marked originality. The Scotsman Mr Bond is a writer of great gifts The New Statesman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A Little about the Writer Ruskin Bond is one of the most celebrated children s authors in India. He has been actively writing since 1951. In his five decades of writing career Ruskin Bond has lost track of number of books he has written, and he is still active in the literary field enriching them with the tales from Himalayas where he has spent m ost of his life. Ruskin Bond has been felicitated by Sahitya Akademi Award and P a Shri. The Book The Room on the Roof is Ruskin Bonds first novel, written at the age of seventee n. This novel is winner of 1957 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and is a deli ght to read. It is story of an Anglo-Indian, 16 year old boy, named Rusty from Dehra. After h is parents death, Rusty had to live with his English guardian, who wants to turn Rusty into a complete Englishmen, and is very Victorian when it came to discipli ne. Rusty on the other hand, fascinated by the colours of India, the Bazaar near their home (needless to say, where he is never allowed to go) and colourful fes tivals, decided to break free. With his newly found friends, who come from all walks of life, Rusty embarks on an adventure of lifetime. This book is about the friendship, caring, the youth- when anything is possible, and a sense of loneliness, as Rusty puts it Inside of me I am all lonely . This bo ok portrays Indian in its true bright colours, may it be a bazaar, fields, peopl e bathing at a well, or a railway compartment. This is the first of many adolescent novels featuring Rusty