The Rupa Book Of Snappy Surprises

by Ruskin Bond

Over the ages, story-telling has been a challenge and a passion for writers across the world. Keeping a reader's attention and interest alive is no easy task. But the toughtest of all is to tell a story that is both engaging and gratifying in few words. Ruskin Bond presents this anthology of 'super short' stories that qualify the doubly difficult criteria of being entertaining as well as crisp. In an amalgamation of sorts, here are tales that combine thrill with social comment, humour with horror, temperament with the supernatural, and wit with tradegy. A wide variety of simple stories, each with its own distinct auro of sentiment, terror, the bizaree, or the unexpected, meant to keep you excited till the last word.

172 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Ramaswamy Raman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The set of stories have humour and surprises and is a good collection.
The language is old English hence can be a deterrent to many readers. The stories are hardly more than 4 pages each and are a interesting mix of suspense, surprises, humour and little horror.
Overall an easy read and can be kept as a coffee table collection for guests to read few stories.

[Karan joshi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Snappy Stories by Ruskin Bond offers a collection of chilling tales that capture the eerie essence of the supernatural. Bond's crisp storytelling and atmospheric settings create a haunting experience that lingers long after the final page.

[Shweta Chopra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thrifting this book on a lazy afternoon stroll was one of the best decisions of my life, this is indeed a gem