![]() The solution to the mystery is sad, moving, and complicated. She always said, “Please remember it is dangerous to go in alone to bathe, even for strong swimmers. “Ours is not a gentle sea,” Auntie Sanni had told Michael, as she told all her guests, when she saw him in his bathrobe. ![]() Beyond them the open sea was calm and azure blue…. All along was the barrier of tossing white, higher than his head, as the waves swept in, rearing up before crashing down he had not realized till last night how gigantic they were. Michael goes for an early-morning swim.Ĭrabs scurried across it, there was an occasional starfish and blue jellyfish. The intense danger of the hotel’s magically colorful private beach is stressed throughout: the waves are so strong that one cannot swim without wearing a wicker helmet. And yet there is something lost about her. She is intensely competitive at everything she does and swims like a mermaid. Who stole and sold it ? A guest? An inhabitant of the village? An archaeologist? And who made the perfect replica?Īnd then Artemis arrives, a young beautiful American archaeologist, who is intellectual, vital, and volatile. The Englishman’s granddaughter, known as Auntie Sanni, now runs it, but it was Professor Webster, an archaeologist who comes every year with a group of tourists, who discovered that the original Shiva had been replaced by a fake sometime in the last year. He admires the beauty of Patna Hall, an old-fashioned luxury hotel built by the beach and hills by an English businessman in the early 20th century. ![]() Michael travels to Coromandel to investigate the case. Cromartie, the dealer, claims to have known nothing of the theft: he tells Michael that he won’t return Shiva to India unless properly paid, and claims he was recently been told the hotel was in financial difficulties and the hotel owner only pretended to steal it. The figurine of Shiva was stolen from a lovely hotel on the coast of Coromandel, where its value had only recently been discovered. We should be a laughing stock.”īut his colleague, Honor Wyatt, Q.C., thinks the case is “poignant,” and the firm takes it on, assigning it to Michael Dean, the senior of the junior barristers, who was raised in India. “It can’t be solid if it’s a spirit, which I don’t believe is active. ![]() “Acting through the government of India, Sir, which seems solid enough to me.” “But this is too fantastical–a Hindu god going to war.” I don’t want to oppose you, Walter–when have I ever?” he asked. Sir George Fothergill, QC, and his head clerk, Walter Johnson, debate whether to take on the case representing Shiva acting through the government of India. The government of India wants it returned.Īfter the dense opening pages, which present information in the form of dialogue, this gracefully-written book proceeds at a fast clip. In Godden’s novel, a stolen statue of Shiva turns up in London in the possession of a Canadian antique dealer, Mr. It is Godden’s last novel, written at age 89.īased on a court case resolved in 1994 about a stolen 12th-century bronze statue of the god Shiva that turned up at the British Museum, it explores the issue of whether museums and dealers have a right to art treasures. I tried to dig up as many resources and tutorials as possible from old master posts and normals posts as a lot of people have been complaining about the lack of resource posts for trans women.Rumer Godden’s Cromartie vs the God Shiva is a miniature classic with an over-long title.
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