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An edition of The God of Small Things
(1997)
The God of Small Things
U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
by Arundhati Roy
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The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel 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), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river...
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Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, dalit, Catholicism, fraternal twins, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1997, Fiction, Romance, Twins, Gemelos, Twins in fiction, Literatura de expressão inglesa, Romans, Downing, Cousins, Romans, nouvelles, Man Booker Prize Winner, Classes sociales, India in fiction, Literatura indiana, Social classes, Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise, Jumeaux, Family, Social classes in fiction, Ficción, Clases sociales, open_syllabus_project, Literatura de expressäao inglesa, Medicine in Literature, Large type books, French language, Littérature de l'Inde (anglaise), Roman de l'Inde (anglais), Literatura india (Inglés), India, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Twins, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, English literature, Fiction, generalPeople
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The God of Small Things
2017, Vintage Canada
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The God of Small Things
2009, Fourth Estate
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De god van kleine dingen
2004, Pockethuis
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The God of Small Things
1999, HarperPerennial, HarperFlamingo
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The God of Small Things
1998, IndiaInk
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The God of Small Things
1997, G.K. Hall
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The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major discrimination that prevails in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.
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