The god of small things / Arundhati Roy.

Author
Roy, Arundhati [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Random House, [1997]
  • ©1997
Description
xii, 321 pages ; 22 cm

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    • The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction.
    • "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever their river 'graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.' The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored in anguish, but fueled by with and magic." -- Provided by publisher
    Contents
    • Paradise pickles & preserves
    • Pappachi's moth
    • Big man the Laltain, small man the Mombatti
    • Abhilash talkies
    • God's own country
    • Cochin kangaroos
    • Wisdom exercise notebooks
    • Welcome home, our Sophie Mol
    • Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen, Mrs. Rajagopalan
    • River in the boat
    • God of small things
    • Kochu Thomban
    • Pessimist and the optimist
    • Work is struggle
    • Crossing
    • Few hours later
    • Cochin harbor terminus
    • History house
    • Saving Ammu
    • Madras mail
    • Cost of living.
    ISBN
    • 0679457313
    • 9780679457312 ((acid-free paper))
    • 0006550681 ((pbk.))
    • 9780006550686 ((pbk.))
    • 0002255863 ((hbk.))
    • 9780002255868 ((hbk.))
    • 0006551092 ((pbk.))
    • 9780006551096 ((pbk.))
    • 0060977493
    • 9780060977498
    LCCN
    96039190
    OCLC
    35744382
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