A Garland Of Memories
By Ruskin Bond
1899
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
146
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Garland of Memories is a narration of his charming city Doon. It is a collection of short stories based on the memories of Bond. This collection contains tales from his chance encounter with Rudyard Kipling's ghost, to his adventures with eccentric Uncle Ken, being witness to a bitter battle between a brave snake, a braver mongoose and two foolhardy birds; it's about the hungry pet python that ate up everyone's lunch and the mythical snow-woman who almost exists - See more at: http://www.currentbooks.com/bonds-bir...
Avg Rating
3.90
Number of Ratings
48
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Ruskin Bond
Author · 180 books
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
