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The god of small things [electronic resource] : [a novel] / Arundhati Roy.

by Roy, Arundhati.

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[New York, N.Y.] : Harper Audio, 2006.

Social classes -- India -- Fiction.

Twins -- Fiction.

India -- Fiction.

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0061142948 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)

9780061142949 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)

The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, "The God of small things" is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen 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). 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.

Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1997.

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