Jon Godden (1906–1984)
Autor(a) de Two Under the Indian Sun
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
Image credit: Jon Godden (nee Winsome Ruth Key Godden). Photo from profile page at Curtis Brown Agency.
Obras por Jon Godden
The City and the Wave 2 exemplares
Associated Works
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Streunende Katzen empfängt man nicht/Die Patienten/Die Walzerkönige/Rettungsboot zwei (1973) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Godden, Jon
- Nome legal
- Godden, Winsome Ruth Key
- Data de nascimento
- 1906-08
- Data de falecimento
- 1984
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Assam, India
- Locais de residência
- Assam, India
Eastbourne, England, UK
Calcutta, India
Kent, England, UK
Narayanganj, India - Educação
- privately educated
- Ocupações
- novelist
- Relações
- Godden, Rumer (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Sister of the novelist Rumer Godden. They also co-wrote a few books together.
- Nota de desambiguação
- Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 449
- Popularidade
- #54,622
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 8
- ISBN
- 25
- Línguas
- 1
There is an innocence in the writing, which is amazing, considering they wrote the book many years later. The two sisters create a wonderful atmosphere, and there are moments when you can almost smell the old mud of India and visualize the people surrounding them.
It is possible to visualize two young girls living in what is now Bangladesh and enjoying the Indian sun. They were not rich and wrote about their pecuniary constraints without affectation. The sisters compared life in India with life in England. When they sailed back to England, they could not (at first) accept England as home.
Most of us forget that, for many English people, India was home but not home.
A charming book, well worth reading if you want to get a glimpse of life in the Raj, through the eyes of young children.… (mais)