Books
Rumer Godden, prolific author who infused her 21 novels and two dozen children’s books with her love of India, has died.
Nov. 11, 1998
Travel & Experiences
COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE by Rumer Godden (Quill: $9.; 263 pp.).
Nov. 21, 1993
A TIME TO DANCE, NO TIME TO WEEP by Rumer Godden (Quill / William Morrow: $9.95) Rumer Godden’s “novelist’s urge to endow everyday facts with fictive interest” (her teacher’s words) befits her account of her colorful life between 1907 and 1946.
April 23, 1989
KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE by Rumer Godden. (Milkweed: $12.95; 282 pp.)
March 13, 1994
“Intolerance of ordinariness” was Rumer Godden’s chief flaw, according to an early teacher, Miss Mona Swann.
Feb. 21, 1988
Reissued after three decades, Rumer Godden’s “China Court” is the sort of timeless English novel that wears as well as a Burberry and is just as impervious to vagaries of fashion.
April 6, 1993
BORN GUILTY Children of Nazi Families by Peter Sichrovsky translated by Jean Steinberg (Basic Books: $1 7 .95; 178 pp.)
Feb. 28, 1988
A House With Four Rooms by Rumer Godden (William Morrow: $18.95 Ill.; 319 pp.)
Nov. 24, 1989
COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE by Rumer Godden (William Morrow and Company: $18; cloth; 224 pp.).
Dec. 22, 1991
Movies
The River (Bravo Tuesday at 11:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.), Jean Renoir’s last English-language film (1951), is one of its period’s most beautiful color pictures; Rumer Godden’s semiautobiographical novel about British children growing up in India.
Sept. 29, 1996