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Breakfast with the Nikolides. For Emily, India is a magical place, somewhere she understands, where she has the freedom to escape from her mother’s suffocating influence. Rumer Godden’s story is of a family whose relationships with each other are as fragile and complicated as those with the country and its people.
The central character of Breakfast with the Nikolides is Emily Pool, taken by her mother from India when young but brought back in panic because of the Nazi invasion of France.
Breakfast with the Nikolides is a 1942 novel by the British writer Rumer Godden. Like much of her work the story takes place in British India, where she lived for many years. Synopsis. After a decade apart, while she has been working in Paris and bringing up the children, a couple are reunited in India during the Second World War.
8 de jul. de 2013 · Breakfast with the Nikolides. Paperback – July 8, 2013. For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides.
20 de dic. de 2016 · A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this “absorbing” novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise Pool left her husband, Charles, in India, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, disillusion, and mistrust.
20 de dic. de 2016 · Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Novel. Rumer Godden. Open Road Media, Dec 20, 2016 - Fiction - 220 pages. A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this...
17 de mar. de 2013 · Published three years after the better-known Black Narcissus, Breakfast With the Nikolides tells of the loss of a young girl's innocence, writes Lucy Scholes
