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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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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It annoys me that so many of Rumer Goddens novels are described as books for children or teenagers. This depiction of life IS from the point of view of a white child living on the banks of a river in colonial India, but is far from childish. The writing is very sparse, but manages to capture the experience of being there at that time, and being a child very precisely. There is only one major event in the novel, but overall it manages to encompasses, life, death, guilt and love! Needs to be read from the point of view of an adult to really appreciate the point of view of this child.
AlmaD
Aug 15, 2009
The River
This is a beautifully written book, almost perfectly written, and the story is subtle though riveting. I would recommend it to any westerner who loves India or wants to go there. Although Jean Renoir made a good movie from this book, in collaboration with the author, I enjoyed the book more.
