setting of novel blue umbrella by ruskin bond
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'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'
In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes.
The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves.
FIRST IMPRESSION:
When I received this book via Amazon today evening, I was surprised by the light weight. The package seemed to contain nothing but a small handbook. And only after checking the bill and opening the parcel did I convince myself that it was indeed the right book. It was so thin and small, true to the name of being a 'Children's book'.
Naturally, the cover was a huge attraction and it is my first actual own Ruskin Bond book. (Ignoring the hand me downs and the second hand copies purchased - those that recent devastations took away from me). So with a very sentimental value, I opened this book and the huge font and illustrations in every alternate page took me back to my childhood, those initial days of reading when I would gaze at the images with as much wonder as I usually reserve for the magic the words created.
REVIEW:
There are books, then there are classics. There are writers, then there are authors. A step above you have the story tellers. But there are people, beyond these mortal levels. People whose words weave a web so powerful that you realise, once again, why you could never put a good book down and concentrate on other work, no matter how big or small it is. These are the people who tell you what a solace reading can be. The words seem to leap out at you from the pages and you feel that the author's chisel has worked over something ordinary and made it extraordinary. It is more about the familiarity one feels as a reader rather than the actual story and content of the book. Much like the case with music, it does not matter what the content is, as long as the accompanying memories are powerful enough. So the moment I began reading, the first reaction was one of familiarity.
So what is so special about this book? A simple village girl, Binya, exchanges her lucky pendant for a blue umbrella she sees with picknickers who had come to the mountainside near her sleepy village. The book follows the story of Binya and her blue umbrella. The one liner of the plot does no justice to the actual story. When you see Binya struggling with the blue umbrella and the near misses and losses she has with it, your heart goes out to her. When you see the villagers' reaction to a simple girl having a fancy umbrella, many facets of human emotions are so effortlessly revealed. When you see how her brother Bijju supports her through all this, you can see how a true sibling bond behaves.
The story is not majestic, not grand. But when one imagines the umbrella blowing away in the wind out of Binya's hand, one can very well get the thrill of having read about a high profile criminal car chase at 220 miles per hour. And the sigh of relief after she safely gets the beloved umbrella is followed by a deep breath of contentment from the reader's side. The characters are simple in their complexity and complex in their simplicity. The magic of the book is not in the storyline, but is in the way the author brings you into the part of the story so much so that for the twenty odd minutes one would take to read this book, one would leave the armchair that holds them and instead, travel with Binya and Bijju and other characters of that sleepy Himalayan village.
Overall, a trip down the memory lane, and as far as my memory holds, the first book I actually received, read and reviewed within a span of 4 hours. The first part is not much of a feat, but of late, the second part is very much realistic.
HOPE U LIKE IT
THANKS
RISHAV1604
'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'
In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes.
The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves.
FIRST IMPRESSION:
When I received this book via Amazon today evening, I was surprised by the light weight. The package seemed to contain nothing but a small handbook. And only after checking the bill and opening the parcel did I convince myself that it was indeed the right book. It was so thin and small, true to the name of being a 'Children's book'.
Naturally, the cover was a huge attraction and it is my first actual own Ruskin Bond book. (Ignoring the hand me downs and the second hand copies purchased - those that recent devastations took away from me). So with a very sentimental value, I opened this book and the huge font and illustrations in every alternate page took me back to my childhood, those initial days of reading when I would gaze at the images with as much wonder as I usually reserve for the magic the words created.
REVIEW:
There are books, then there are classics. There are writers, then there are authors. A step above you have the story tellers. But there are people, beyond these mortal levels. People whose words weave a web so powerful that you realise, once again, why you could never put a good book down and concentrate on other work, no matter how big or small it is. These are the people who tell you what a solace reading can be. The words seem to leap out at you from the pages and you feel that the author's chisel has worked over something ordinary and made it extraordinary. It is more about the familiarity one feels as a reader rather than the actual story and content of the book. Much like the case with music, it does not matter what the content is, as long as the accompanying memories are powerful enough. So the moment I began reading, the first reaction was one of familiarity.
So what is so special about this book? A simple village girl, Binya, exchanges her lucky pendant for a blue umbrella she sees with picknickers who had come to the mountainside near her sleepy village. The book follows the story of Binya and her blue umbrella. The one liner of the plot does no justice to the actual story. When you see Binya struggling with the blue umbrella and the near misses and losses she has with it, your heart goes out to her. When you see the villagers' reaction to a simple girl having a fancy umbrella, many facets of human emotions are so effortlessly revealed. When you see how her brother Bijju supports her through all this, you can see how a true sibling bond behaves.
The story is not majestic, not grand. But when one imagines the umbrella blowing away in the wind out of Binya's hand, one can very well get the thrill of having read about a high profile criminal car chase at 220 miles per hour. And the sigh of relief after she safely gets the beloved umbrella is followed by a deep breath of contentment from the reader's side. The characters are simple in their complexity and complex in their simplicity. The magic of the book is not in the storyline, but is in the way the author brings you into the part of the story so much so that for the twenty odd minutes one would take to read this book, one would leave the armchair that holds them and instead, travel with Binya and Bijju and other characters of that sleepy Himalayan village.
Overall, a trip down the memory lane, and as far as my memory holds, the first book I actually received, read and reviewed within a span of 4 hours. The first part is not much of a feat, but of late, the second part is very much realistic.
HOPE U LIKE IT
THANKS
RISHAV1604
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