Book: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Author: Ruskin Bond
Genre: Anthology
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Pages: 328
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Ruskin Bond is a collection of 36 favourite stories of the author that celebrates love, warmth, and friendship.
The stories in the collection strike the human emotions that everyone goes through – Love! Love for friends, romantic partners, parents, nature, strangers, and anything which we can think of. And the stories were sheer joy, happiness, and calmness.
There were many stories in the collection that I have read previously and that we all have heard of, like “The Blue Umbrella”, “Angry River”, “The Night Train In Deoli”, and some stories about which I have had no idea, and which became my favourite. “Love Is a Sad Song” is one of them, which Prajakta and my friend Mansee told me later that they enjoyed reading it equally and now I can understand why!
Mr. Bond writes in the introduction “I do not write plots, I wrote people”. And this is so true! Like Koki, Ranji, Teju from “When the Gauvas Are Ripe”, Binya from “The Blue Umbrella “, Sita from “The Angry River”, Bisnu from “Dust On the Mountains”, Sushila from “Love Is a Sad Song” there are countless characters that he wrote who feels like someone that we know from our childhood! And that’s the beauty of this writing.
The warmth, comfort, and fulfillment of these cozy stories match the looks of the cover, which is so gorgeous. This book is my favourite collection by Mr. Bond out of all the books I’ve read till now.
If you are looking forward to reading a book that can make you smile, shy, love, longing, and maybe blush at moments, go for this book! It’s definitely a highly recommended book from my side, one of my favourites from this year for sure. I’ll give it 5/5.
I was provided a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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