My Review
“The Room on the Roof” is a wonderful book. This novel is about the story of a young boy whose name is Rusty. This story reveals how a young European boy who lived in a conservative lifestyle set by his guardian, breaks the rule, leaves the house, struggles to find shelter, makes friends, finds a job, falls in love, lives an ordinary life in a room on the roof.
Then in the second phase of the book, loses his love, loses his friends, loses his job, loses hope and loses his path. The author through his writing divulges all the feelings a young boy could have. In all of that, the room on the roof is described as beautifully as a character of a person could be described. It shows the boy’s attachment to the room.
The book is written in a very easy language. The words are threaded together so pleasantly that it sounds poetic and ornated.
My favourite lines in the book are:
“But now we walk back. We walk back to the room on the roof! It is our room, we have to go back!
They had to go back: to bathe at the water tank and listen to the morning gossip, to sit in the fruit trees and eat in the chaat shop and perhaps make a garden on the roof; to eat and sleep; to work; to live; to die.”
About the book
- “The Room on the Roof” is the first novel written by Ruskin Bond when he was seventeen.
- The novel is the winner of ” THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE in 1957.”
- Published by Puffin Books- Penguin Random House.
- The novel is of 184 pages contains 23 small chapters.
- The beautiful front cover explains the title of the book.
- Quiet illustrated to catch up with the novel.