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The god of small things / Arundhati Roy.
Author
Roy, Arundhati
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Random House, [1997]
©1997
Description
xii, 321 pages ; 22 cm
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PR9499.3.R59 G63 1997
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Social classes
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Fiction
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Twins
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Psychological fiction
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Domestic fiction
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India
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Psychological fiction
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Summary note
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.
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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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