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 literary phenomenon of the year. More magical than Mistry, more
of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly
imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel
by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich,
fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language,
wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. Set against a background
of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small
Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the
vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's
factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what
constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother, their
beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and
bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and
incumbent grand-aunt).
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