In The Room on the Roof, Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Ango-Indian boy, decides he has had enough of the tiny, diminishing European community and his tyrannical guardian, and runs away., The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley: Two Novels of Adolescence, Ruskin Bond, Penguin Books, 9780140239591, Penguin Books, 6th June 1989, 0140239596, Classics Fiction, Literature Books, Literature Fiction, Fiction, Cheapest Books, Lowest Books, 