{"product_id":"friends-in-small-places","title":"Friends in Small Places","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bonds cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bonds numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the smalltown India by one of the countrys best storytellers. About the Author 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 published a number of novellas, short story collections, books of essays and articles, poems and children s books. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He currently resides in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Ruskin Bond \/ paperback","offer_id":47844547330293,"sku":"DADAX0141004290","price":37.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91Vm5zz6OuL.jpg?v=1773815024","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/friends-in-small-places","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}