SynopsisMeet the enchanting and chaat-loving singer Gracie, for whom the narrator develops a one-sided
affection; the delinquent youth, Sunil, with whom he forges an unlikely friendship; little Bisnu,
who faces-off a man-eater that has claimed many in the village; and the lively West Indian, George.
The novella is a favourite of Ruskin Bond, and this collection encompasses both humour and
pathos. It also includes an excerpt from The Room on the Roof, for which Bond had won the John
Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
From the small towns of Mussourie and Dehradun to the teeming cities of Delhi and London,
Calypso Christmas takes you to people and places you will remember long after the book is read.
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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.