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MOOLTIKI: STORIES AND POEMS FROM INDIA (151 pp.)-Rumer Godden-Viking...
Author Godden, sister of Novelist Rumer (An Episode of Sparrows) Godden, has told her tale with the simplicity of a fable, leaving her readers to probe for themselves the depths she merely suggests. Few will be persuaded by the tale's fatalism, but many may be intrigued by its mystical conception of the path to truth...
...EPISODE OF SPARROWS (247 pp.)? Rumer Godden?Viking...
IMPUNITY JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
...English Novelist Rumer Godden is a success. The author of ten novels, several of them about India, she fashions neat plots, her dialogue sparkles, her people have a reasonable resemblance to living beings. Since she usually muffles her main point in soft-focus symbolism, it is not always possible to say with assurance what it is that Novelist Godden is trying to say. Nonetheless, her last two books have sold close to 275,000 copies, and her A Breath of Air was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection...