Booker Prize Winner 1997. The story of Esta and Rahel, male and
female dizygotic twins, who recall how their feared aunt forced the
English language upon them; how, when the twins were seven they,
were visited by nine-year-old Sophie Mol for a Christmas vacation;
and how these events lead to taboo sex and appalling violence.
Roy's love story owes something to Joyce, something to Faulkner and
a great deal to Rushdie. Her prose is rich and effervescent,
bursting with imagery and ideas. (Kirkus UK)
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...
"A banquet for all the senses", said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
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