Rusty: The Boy from the Hills by Ruskin Bond

Rusty The Boy From The Hills by Ruskin Bond
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A nearly autobiographical set of stories.

The stories are based on the author's initial life in India and Java. The author projects his experience through Rusty a boy from the hills.

Likes most of his other stories, these stories smell of the mountains, the trees, the flowers and the innocence of the characters. While most stories exude innocence there is a story in which the gardener pushes the boy's step father (there is no love lost between the two) into the well and bricks up the well.

Many of the stories repeat across books. The one about the boy's grandfather's love for animals appears in multiple books. It is worth reading them in each of the book.

An absolute good read.

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