“A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary-at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple-that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.” - The New York Times Book Review “ offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. as subtle as it is powerful.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. “The God of Little Things” is a passionate family saga that, through its ripples of magical realism, has led critics to compare Arundhati Roy with Salmon Rushdie and García Márquez.The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessĬompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The God of Small Things Audible Audiobook Unabridged Arundhati Roy (Author), Sneha Mathan (Narrator), & 1 more 14,200 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Where only the little things are said and the big things remain unsaid. These are the short stories of a family living in a troubled time and of a country whose essence seems eternal. His younger great-aunt, Baby Kochamma, resigned to postpone his earthly love for the Father for eternity.
Uncle Chacko’s, who longs for the visit of his former English wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Sophie Mol. Grandma Mammachi, the matriarch whose body bears scars from Pappachi’s violence. That of his mother Ammu, who loves at night the man whom children love by day, and of Velutha, the untouchable god of little things. The stories of twins Estha and Rahel, born in 1962, amid news of a lost war. “The God of Little Things” is the three-generation story of a family from the Kerala region of southern India, scattered all over the world and reunited in their homeland.
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