The God of Small Things: A NovelBOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness “[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 haunting.”—USA Today Compared 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 seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. 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. |
Contents
Pappachis Moth | |
Big Man the Laltain Small Man the Mombatti | |
Abhilash Talkies | |
Gods Own Country | |
Cochin Kangaroos | |
Wisdom Exercise Notebooks | |
Welcome Home Our Sophie | |
Mrs Pillai Mrs Eapen Mrs Rajagopalan | |
The River in the Boat | |
The God of Small Things | |
Kochu Thomban | |
The Pessimist and the Optimist | |
Work Is Struggle | |
The Crossing | |
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