Small Towns, Big Stories showcases twenty-one stories of small-town life by the country’s
greatest living chronicler of the Indian heartland.
Ruskin Bond has been writing evocative stories about the dusty towns and settlements
in the hinterland for decades but this is the first time his finest stories on the theme have
been brought together in a single volume. Timeless classics like ‘Time Stops at Shamli’,
‘Bus Stop, Pipalnagar’, and ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ rub shoulders with brilliant new
stories that have never been published before like ‘Strychnine in the Cognac’, ‘The
Horseshoe’ and ‘When the Clock Strikes Thirteen’. Vibrant, poignant, beautiful and
tragic, these stories show a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award), Angry River, The Blue Umbrella, Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, A Little Night Music, Tigers for Dinner, Tales of Fosterganj, and A Gathering of Friends.
Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
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