Jon Godden (1906–1984)
Autor de Two Under the Indian Sun
Sobre El Autor
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
Créditos de la imagen: Jon Godden (nee Winsome Ruth Key Godden). Photo from profile page at Curtis Brown Agency.
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- Nombre canónico
- Godden, Jon
- Nombre legal
- Godden, Winsome Ruth Key
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1906-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1984
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Assam, India
- Lugares de residencia
- Assam, India
Eastbourne, England, UK
Calcutta, India
Kent, England, UK
Narayanganj, India - Educación
- privately educated
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
- Relaciones
- Godden, Rumer (sister)
Key, Thomas Hewitt (great-great-grandfather) - Biografía breve
- Sister of the novelist Rumer Godden. They also co-wrote a few books together.
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Real name: Winsome Ruth Key Godden.
Please don't combine this author with her sister Rumer Godden.
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- Obras
- 16
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 446
- Popularidad
- #54,979
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 25
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)