Jon Godden (1906–1984)
Autore di Two Under the Indian Sun
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
Fonte dell'immagine: Jon Godden (nee Winsome Ruth Key Godden). Photo from profile page at Curtis Brown Agency.
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The City and the Wave 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Godden, Jon
- Nome legale
- Godden, Winsome Ruth Key
- Data di nascita
- 1906-08
- Data di morte
- 1984
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Assam, India
- Luogo di residenza
- Assam, India
Eastbourne, England, UK
Calcutta, India
Kent, England, UK
Narayanganj, India - Istruzione
- privately educated
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Relazioni
- Godden, Rumer (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Breve biografia
- Sister of the novelist Rumer Godden. They also co-wrote a few books together.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
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- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 446
- Popolarità
- #54,979
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)