Shiva's Pigeons: an Experience of India

by Jon Godden, Rumer Godden

Two famous novelists and a perceptive photographer combine their talents to bring to the reader a remarkable view of the mysery and beauty, the weaknesses and strengths, of this land of manifold contradictions. All Indians - Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Christian - are Shiva's pigeons.

372 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1972

About the author

Winsome Ruth Key Godden was an English novelist who wrote under the name Jon Godden. She is the lesser known sister of author Rumer Godden. Although her work was praised by critics she was not interested in the commercial side of writing as she had a financially stable marriage. She spent most of her life in India; however when her marriage came to an end in 1957, she was forced to move back to family owned real estate in England where she remained until her death.