- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Viking Pr (January 1946)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670599735
- ISBN-13: 978-0670599738
- Product Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 9 Kg
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Product Description
The tale is one of a child growing up. During a brief Indian winter, Harriet knew death, birth, cruelty, kindness, retribution, and the shadow of love. As she watched the flow of the river mirror the inexorable changes in her life, she was becoming a woman - though not quite an ordinary one, as she herself suspected.
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About the Author
Rumer Godden was one of Britain’s most distinguished authors, with many justly famous and much-loved books for both adults and children to her credit, including Black Narcissus and The Greengage Summer . She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quiet Profundity, Sep 24 2001
By P. Mcchesney "patmac" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The River (Hardcover)
In this brief book Godden captures the bittersweetness of a girl's approach toward womanhood, and tackles the biggest issues humans face - birth, death, identity, loss, and faith. With a concise, poetic hand, the author illuminates the spiritual and intellectual journey of a child who is beginning to piece together an understanding of the world around her, and to identify her place in it. The river is a simple, beautiful metaphor for the events that flow through the girl's life.Godden's evocative book touched my own recollections of childhood - the remarkable clarity of taste, smell, sensation, thought and feeling, the electrical insights flashing into awareness almost reflexively. Deeply affecting read, if one is quiet enough to hear all that is taking place within the simple narrative.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Book to Read when You are ten, then every year after., Oct 16 2001
By "byzantine55" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The River (Hardcover)
This Book gave me another world view, as it takes place in India in the 20's . It has an un-American style of writing, British 1920's which I think children should be exposed to and it is a lovely story about life and death and the circle of it all. The characters are a British family. The children are the main charcters, particularily the 9 year old girl, Harriet, the style of writing strongly influenced the way I write fiction. I would love to produce a movie of it. It is lyrical and original. I've read it at least ten times. One of my late grandmother's legacies to me was Rumer Godden's books. Thank you Grandma Hunter!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Simple but Challenging Novel, Aug 23 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The River (Hardcover)
I think it is fairly thoughtless to say that The River isn't a deep or thought-provoking read. The plot is so simple, and comes in such abrupt waves that one might not notice the amount of time the protagonist, Harriet, spends considering life, death, and our purpose here. It's richly symbolic and very subtle. The coming of age element of the story is told in a deft and beautiful way, and the ways in which the characters view life will get you thinking. Highly recommended (if you can find it).
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