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The river

Rumer Godden

194640 pagesabout 35–55 minutes
1946
first published
  • 1998The Crowood Press · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780709062059
  • 2012Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781844088690
  • 2024HarperCollins Canada / Mass Market · 290 pagesISBN 9780380004515
  • 2004Pan Books · 144 pagesISBN 9780330489997
  • 1985G K Hall & Co · 40 pages · ENGISBN 9780851192093
  • 1994PAN · 128 pagesISBN 9780330335225
  • 2007Viena · 160 pagesISBN 9788483304549
  • 1988Viking Press · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780884116486

A novella about the coming of age of a little English girl in colonial India. She and her baby brother are the dreamers in a large family, and share both the joys of childhood as well as its terrible tragedies. An utterly absorbing, moving and joyous story by a great storyteller

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