A group of nuns in a convent in northern India is the backdrop for a story of cultural conflict and obsessive love. ![]() The story is set in a cloister high in the Himalayas. Her first novel, Black Narcissus, was published in 1939 to critical acclaim, and like most all the major novels that came after, was a bestseller. ![]() Though she’s no longer widely read, she was an acclaimed bestselling mid-twentieth century author, nine of whose books were adapted to major films. It was her own life that inspired the colorful, dramatic stories she wrote. ![]() ![]() Rumer Godden(1907 – 1998) was a novelist and memoirist born in England and raised mainly in India at the height of colonial rule.
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