SynopsisThe Daffodil Case brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s fiction and non-fiction. From the thoroughly delightful ‘Dinner with Foster’ and ‘Who Kissed Me in the Dark’ to spooky tales like ‘A Fright in the Night’ and ‘Wilson’s Bridge’, and classics like ‘Death of a Familiar’, ‘Voting at Barlowganj’ and ‘My Father’s Trees in Dehra’—this volume is a selection of some of Bond’s best works.
One of India’s most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond creates a charming portrait of the quiet, unhurried life for his readers with this collection.
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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.
