Releasing nationwide on 19 May 2017
24 April 2017: Puffin India takes pride in announcing the upcoming release of Looking for the Rainbow: My Years with Daddy by India’s bestselling author Ruskin Bond. In this book, Ruskin Bond’s first ever memoir for children, we find Mr Bond extensively reminiscing about the time he spent with his father. Gorgeously illustrated, the charming and poignant prose makes Looking for the Rainbow a collector’s item for anybody touched by Ruskin Bond’s illuminating writing.
Scheduled to release countrywide on the author’s birthday, 19th May, it will be formally launched by the author himself at one of his most visited bookstores in Mussourie, Cambridge Bookstores. Talking about his latest release, Ruskin Bond has remarked, ‘This little book is a tribute to my father who, over a short period of time, did so much to make my life meaningful for me. I wish all the children could have a father like him. I have written about him before, but never at length, and I thought it was time to thank him in the best possible way through a story woven around the events of those two memorable years. Once upon a time, in old New Delhi. . .’
Blurb
At age eight, Ruskin escapes his jail-like boarding school in the hills and goes to live with his father in Delhi. His time in the capital is filled with books, visits to the cinema, music, and walks and conversations with his father—a dream life for a curious and wildly imaginative boy, which turns tragic all too soon. For years, Ruskin Bond has regaled and mesmerized readers with his tales. In Looking for the Rainbow, Bond travels to his past, recalling his favourite adventures (and misadventures) with extraordinary charm, sprinklings of wit, a pinch of poignance and not a trace of bitterness.
What you’re holding, dear reader, is a classic in the making.
About Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written a number of novellas, essays, poems and children’s books, many of which have been published by Penguin. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.
