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shivanisawarkar's review
5.0
No one does Indian short stories better than Ruskin Bond and R.K. Narayan. I have grown up reading their works, so I may be a bit biased, but I have yet to come across an author who capture the essence of our culture and community as simply and beautifully as these two men have.
This book is a collection of Ruskin Bond's short stories, poems, essays, extracts from his previous novels, as well as the previously unpublished novel Delhi is Not Far . As with his previous works, Bond's love for the mountains shines through, and leaves you longing for the Indian hill stations yourself.
While some may critique that Ruskin Bond's stories are too simplistic, even his harshest critics won't disagree upon this fact -- that his ordinary, everyday stories always strike the all the right emotional chords. In the Introduction to this book, Bond himself addresses his simplistic prose style: "People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are really alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity."
This book is a collection of Ruskin Bond's short stories, poems, essays, extracts from his previous novels, as well as the previously unpublished novel Delhi is Not Far . As with his previous works, Bond's love for the mountains shines through, and leaves you longing for the Indian hill stations yourself.
While some may critique that Ruskin Bond's stories are too simplistic, even his harshest critics won't disagree upon this fact -- that his ordinary, everyday stories always strike the all the right emotional chords. In the Introduction to this book, Bond himself addresses his simplistic prose style: "People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are really alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity."
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