Mysterious Tales from the Hills

by Ruskin Bond

107 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

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.

Reviews

[DEEKSHA SHARMA · Rating 3 out of 5]

An okay book
Makes an average read.
I was intrigued to by this book going by its title, however, the short stories didn't live up to their expectations.
The book can be read for leisure purposes.