Coromandel Sea Change

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529078510

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Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden Pdf

From Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus returns again to her beloved India win Coromandel Sea Change, a novel brimming with heart, wit, unforgettable characters, and ‘a sense of timelessness reminiscent of E. M. Forster’ (The Times). Hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests during her many years as hostess at Patna Hall, a popular vacation spot on the lush Coromandel coast. Now, with an election coming, business is especially brisk, and her hotel is packed with Indian politicians, British diplomats, journalists, American tourists – even an elephant, and a woman of mystery or two. Among the vacationers are Mary and Blaise, a young English couple on their honeymoon. But where Mary is enchanted by the colours, sounds and vibrant Indian life, prim and priggish Blaise sees only squalor, sordidness and a Coromandel Sea teeming with sharks. Matters are only made worse when Mary becomes interested in local Indian politics – particularly the handsome, exquisitely spoken candidate Krishnan, whose kindness and wisdom are like a balm for her spirit . . .

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 033034594X

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Coromandel Sea Change ; The Greengage Summer ; The River by Rumer Godden Pdf

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Coromandel Coast (India)
ISBN : OCLC:939604286

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Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden Pdf

A lovely hotel on the shimmering Coromandel coast of India, is the idyllic setting for Blaise and Mary's honeymoon. Their tranquillity is soured by Mary's growing isolation from her husband, malicious undercurrents in the gossip of staff and finally, irrevocably, when she meets Krishnan.

Author : Lucy Le-Guilcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317060901

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Rumer Godden by Lucy Le-Guilcher Pdf

From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies; inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447206354

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The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden Pdf

Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses a hidden motive to their presence. But through the pain of the months to come, the poetry and logic of India do not leave Una untouched. And it begins with the feather, a promise of something genuine and precious . . . In The Peacock Spring Rumer Godden evokes the magic of an India she knows so well – and all the bitter sweetness of loyalty and love. And in the preface she explains how this perennially popular novel came to be written.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781447292753

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Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden Pdf

A beautifully illustrated cover edition of Rumer Godden's classic story about friendship and family, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. When little Nona is sent from her sunny home in India to live with her relatives in chilly England, she is miserable. Then a box arrives for her in the post and inside, wrapped up in tissue paper, are two little Japanese dolls. A slip of paper says their names are Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. Nona thinks that they must feel lonely too, so far away from home. Then Nona has an idea – she will build her dolls the perfect house! It will be just like a Japanese home in every way. It will even have a tiny Japanese garden. And as she begins to make Miss Happiness and Miss Flower happy, Nona finds that she is happier too.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781447292777

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Little Plum by Rumer Godden Pdf

When Gem moves into The House Next Door, Nona and Belinda think she's stuck up and vow to have nothing to do with her. But the beautiful Japanese doll in her window soon attracts their attention. They name her Little Plum because of the plum blossom decorating her clothes - but unlike Nona's Japanese dolls, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, Little Plum seems sad, unloved and uncared for. Will the three girls - and the three dolls - ever become friends? A beautiful illustrated cover edition of Little Plum, Rumer Godden's classic story about family and friendship.

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108704

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Encyclopedia of British Writers by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

Author : George Stade,Karen Karbiener
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116891

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present by George Stade,Karen Karbiener Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

Author : Luisa Moncada
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781607652458

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Reading on Location by Luisa Moncada Pdf

From the charming city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the Amazon of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde, this unique travel guide brings you to the places you've only read about. Whether you want to learn more about a destination or follow in the footsteps of a favorite character, Reading on Location helps you make the most of your trip.

Author : Phyllis Lassner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813534178

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Colonial Strangers by Phyllis Lassner Pdf

This title aims to revolutionize modern British literary studies by showing how our interpretations of the postcolonial must confront World War II and the Holocaust. Lassner's analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how and why the British Empire had to end. to the end of fascism. Drawing on memoirs, fiction, reportage and film adaptations, the book explores the critical perspectives of women who are passionately engaged with Britian's struggle to yield the last vestiges of imperial power. British women as agents of imperialism by questioning their own participation in British claims of moral righteousness and British politics of cultural exploitation. The authors discussed take centre stage in debates about connections between the racist ideologies of the Third Reich and the British Empire.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Virago
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405513586

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Cromartie vs The God Shiva by Rumer Godden Pdf

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden] writes with grace and a cheerfully lilting prose' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Her craftsmanship is always sure' NEW YORK TIMES A revered effigy of the God, Shiva, is missing from the Patna Hall Hotel on south India's exquisite Coromandel coast. Was it stolen, and to whom does it belong? Young lawyer Michael Dean, sent from London to argue the case for the defence, falls under the spell of Artemis, a graceful archaeologist who is staying at the hotel; but she proves as elusive as the mystery of the theft he is working on. Her final novel, Cromartie vs The God Shiva is a magical, evocative exploration of art, love, class and greed set in Godden's beloved southern India.

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307764652

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Tropical Classical by Pico Iyer Pdf

In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers. Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses the books of Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy. And he brings his perceptive eye and unflappable wit to bear on the postmodern vogues for literary puffery, sexual gamesmanship, and frequent-flier miles. Glittering with aphorisms, overflowing with insight, and often hilarious, Tropical Classical represents some of Iyer's finest work.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Virago
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405513197

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The Lady and the Unicorn by Rumer Godden Pdf

By the author of Black Narcissus and The River 'Rumer Godden's novels have a timeless shimmer' GUARDIAN 'Touching, amusing, enchanting . . . an exceptional work' OBSERVER 'Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty' NEW YORK TIMES In a crumbling Calcutta mansion, with faded frescos and a jasmine-covered garden, the Lemarchant family live, clinging to the fringes of respectability: neither Indian nor English, they are accepted by no one and exploited by all. After only a day in India, Stephen Bright meets Rosa Lemarchant. In an ill-fitting dress once belonging to her sister, she is awkward, shy and couldn't be more different from the stories he has heard of fast 'Eurasian' girls. Ignorant of Calcutta's strict codes of conformity, he falls in love with Rosa and becomes enchanted by the building in which she lives, determined to uncover its secrets. Mystery pervades this story of a memory-haunted house in old Calcutta, as secret as a sundial in a ruined garden.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Virago
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405513173

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD 'Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty' NEW YORK TIMES When their mother leaves the country to be with her lover, Hugh and Caddie Clavering's seemingly perfect life falls apart. Devastated by the sudden, bitter dissolution of their parents' marriage and desperate for her to come back, the children travel alone to the Villa Fiorita on Lake Garda, determined not to leave without her. On arrival, they can tell Fanny and Rob are deeply in love, and their mother is happier than they've ever seen her, but the scheme lives on. Thankfully, Rob's young daughter is only too glad to help destroy their parents' relationship. Will Hugh and Caddie realise that their actions have consequences before it is too late? Told with wit and great empathy against a stunning evocation of the Italian countryside, Rumer Godden's The Battle of the Villa Fiorita marks another coming of age classic for the highly acclaimed author.