A Gathering of Friends: My Favourite Stories

His tales of India are fresh yet age-old; the scents sights and languor of the Indian scene have rarely been captured with such ease and authority…-National Herald Ruskin Bond has a magnificently simple and immensely moving style compassion and a love and reverence for life-Indian Express A writer of great gifts.- New Statesman One of the countrys foremost writers.- Sunday Chronicle The countrys best-loved English-language storyteller...seldom disappoints his readers... If you want the...pleasures of a good story you cant go wrong with Bond.- Live Mint One of Indias best-loved storytellers.- The Hindu The twenty-one stories in the book are the greatest pieces of fiction written by Ruskin Bond. Chosen by the author himself from a body of work built over fifty years (starting with his award-winning first novel The Room on the Roof and ending with Tales of Fosterganj) this collection includes well-known masterpieces like The Night Train at Deoli The Woman on Platform No 8 Rusty Plays Holi (from The Room on the Roof) Angry River The Blue Umbrella The Eyes Have It Most Beautiful Panthers Moon as well as newer stories like An Evening at the Savoy with H.H. (from Maharani) and Dinner with Foster (from Tales of Fosterganj). Taken together the stories in A Gathering of Friends show why Ruskin Bond has long been regarded as one of the pillars of Indian literature. This is a book that will delight his legions of fans as well as those lucky few who are new to his fiction.