Rusty The Boy From The Hills - Book Review
Rusty the boy from the hills is the first book in the Rusty series. It describes the life of a young Anglo Indian boy named Rusty in India. This book is most probably one of my favourite books. Here’s why!
My Review
Rusty the boy from the hills in one of its kind. The main highlight of this book is the descriptions. I just love the way Ruskin Bond describes things. The books has the best stories and contains almost all the emotions (pretty usual in a Ruskin Bond book). The stories are just so nice. This book is a collection of many stories which all has Rusty(Ruskin Bond) as the central character.
The book revolves around Dehradun , Shimla, Delhi and a single chapter on Java. Rusty is a semi fictional story of Ruskin bond himself. In the book, Rusty is described as a sensitive, adventurous, silent and an observant boy of 12 years. He is an Anglo Indian boy. In the book he meets and makes a lot of friends. The main characters are his father, mother, grandma, grandpa etc.
He finds a lot of mysteries and strange things at his house. Not only that he travels to lot of different places and describes the places so well, to the point where we can literally see what he is seeing through his eyes, that’s very impressive but what impressed me even more was how short his description were. The way he managed to include all of his descriptions into a book which has 163 pages is just mind boggling. I read the old copy so there might be difference in the page numbers, here’s the cover 👇
Source-amazon