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The God of Small Things Hardcover Arundhati Roy

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Publication Name
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN
9780679457312
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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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679457313
ISBN-13
9780679457312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
924409

Product Key Features

Book Title
God of Small Things
Author
Arundhati Roy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
321 Pages, Xii, 321 Pages

Dimensions

Weight
18 Oz
Item Weight
18 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr9499.3.R59g63 1997
Publication Date
1997-04-22
Reviews
"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
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-039190
Dewey Decimal
823
Dewey Edition
21

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  • 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 ...

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    Too much description of little things about people-no lesson to learn

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  • 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.