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The Umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in her village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shop-keeper. Ruskin Bond's short and humorous novella, set in the picturesque hills of Garhwal, perfectly captures life in a village, where both heroism and redemption can be found.
Product Details
Title: | The Blue Umbrella |
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Author: | Ruskin Bond |
Publisher: | Red Turtle ( Rupa Publication ) |
SKU: | BK0337809 |
EAN: | 9788129124548 |
Number Of Pages: | 56 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
Reading age : | 9 years and up |
Country Of Origin: | India |
Release date: | 1 April 2013 |
About Author
One of India's finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorieand A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.