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ISBN: 0679457313

Publication Year: 1997

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: God of Small Things

Author: Arundhati Roy

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Genre: Fiction

Topic: Psychological, Family Life, General

Item Weight: 18 Oz

Number of Pages: 321 Pages, Xii, 321 Pages

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"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. " 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, beside 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 to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.

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God of Small Things

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Arundhati Roy

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Hardcover

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English

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Psychological, Family Life, General

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1997

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Fiction

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321 Pages, Xii, 321 Pages

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Pr9499.3.R59g63 1997

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1997-04-22

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"Dazzling . . . as subtle as it is powerful." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It's that hauntingly wonderful." USA Today "The quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinaryat once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supplethat the reader remains enthralled all the way through." The New York Times Book Review "A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does." John Updike, The New Yorker "Outstanding. A glowing first novel." Newsweek "Splendid and stunning." The Washington Post Book World

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by astoundinginnovations
Jul 07, 2009
Roots of Unhappiness
Plot Summary: This highly stylized novel tells the story of one very fractured family from Aymanam, Kerala. Through flashbacks and flash forwards. Rahel ahend Estha are fraternal twins whose emotional connection to one another is stronger than that of most siblings. As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities. Now, years later, Rahel has a memory of waking up one night giggling at Estha’s funny dream. Their childhood household hums with hidden antagonisms and pains that only family members can give one another. Blind Mammachi, the twins’ grandmother is a widow who suffered years of abuse at the hands of her highly respected husband, and who has a fierce one-sided Oedipal connection with her son, Chacko. Baby Kochamma, Rahel and ... Plot Summary: This highly stylized novel tells the story of one very fractured family from Aymanam, Kerala. Through flashbacks and flash forwards. Rahel ahend Estha are fraternal twins whose emotional connection to one another is stronger than that of most siblings. As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities. Now, years later, Rahel has a memory of waking up one night giggling at Estha’s funny dream. Their childhood household hums with hidden antagonisms and pains that only family members can give one another. Blind Mammachi, the twins’ grandmother is a widow who suffered years of abuse at the hands of her highly respected husband, and who has a fierce one-sided Oedipal connection with her son, Chacko. Baby Kochamma, Rahel and Estha’s grandaunt, nurses deep-seated bitterness for a lifetime of unrequited love, a bitterness that plays out slyly against everyone in the family; in her youth she fell in love with an Irish Roman-Catholic priest and converted to his faith to win him, while he eventually converted to Hinduism. Chacko, divorced from his English wife and separated from his daughter since her infancy, runs the pickle factory with a capitalist’s hand, self-deluding himself all the while that he is a Communist at heart even as he flirts with and beds his female employees. Ammu, the twins’ mother, is a divorcee who fled her husband’s alcoholism and impossible demands, a woman with a streak of wildness that the children sense and dread and that will be her and her family’s undoing. The family’s tragedy revolves around the visit of Chacko’s ex-wife, widowed by her second husband, and his daughter, Sophie Mol. It is within the context of their visit that Estha will experience the one horrible thing that should never happen to a child, during their visit that Ammu will come to love by night the man the children love by day, and during their visit that Sophie Mol will die. Her death, and the fate of the twins’ beloved Untouchable Velutha, will forever alter the course of the lives of all the members of the family, sending them each off on spinning trajectories of regret and pain. The story reveals itself not in traditional narrative order, but in jumps through time, wending its way through Rahel’s memories and attempts at understanding the hand fate dealt her family. The God of Small Things unfolds the secrets of these characters’ unhappiness. Arundhati Roy twists and reshapes language to create an arresting, startling sort of precision. The average reader of mainstream fiction may have a tough time working through Roy’s prose, but those with a more literary bent to their usual fiction inclinations should find the initial struggle through the dense prose a worthy price for this lushly tragic tale. In a nut shell - it was an attempt to write something that was told before in simple language (by authors like Kamala Das) by giving a different flavor altogether. For me it is a forced literary gimmick at the expense of readability. If you want to crack nuts then go for "Ulysses" - Atleast it's worth cracking !!
by avariety.m
Jul 06, 2017
A little boring
Too much description of little things about people-no lesson to learn
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by mwar1984
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by judfos-2
Jan 19, 2021
The god of small things
Hodge podge of nonsense
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by angelus934
Feb 02, 2009
good story
It is a touching story that many people will enjoy. If you are an English major, or just enjoy reading, you will love this story.

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