The Blue Umbrella - Paperback

by Ruskin Bond (Author)

• In The Umbrella, Ruskin Bond's short and humorous novella, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella in exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant.
• The umbrella is described as a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.
• Set in the picturesque hills of Garhwal, the story perfectly captures life in a village, where both heroism and redemption can be found.
• The blue umbrella makes Binya the envy of everyone in her village, particularly Ram Bharosa, the shop-keeper.

Author Biography

Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.