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Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).
Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic.
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355 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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  • verogr16shared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    🚀Unputdownable
    🐼Fluffy
    💧Soppy

    This is a wonderful book, lovely written, and with a great development of the story. There’s some musicality in the narrative, which sometimes made me read out loud the same paragraph several times. The descriptions are build with images nicely embroidered from daily objects and situations. The plot was interesting and it was easy to connect with the story. I loved it, I would read it again many times, and I totally recommend it.

  • ellenmshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💧Soppy

    Волшебная, невероятная и в тоже время совершенно реальная история мастерски рассказанная Арундати Рой. Одно из самых сильных моих впечатлений этого книжного года.

  • Natalia Latyshevashared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Очень, очень сильная книга, мудрая, глубокая. И написана очень хорошо

Quotes

  • Olga Khvanhas quoted6 years ago
    is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined.
  • Juliahas quoted5 years ago
    If he touched her, he couldn’t talk to her, if he loved her he couldn’t leave, if he spoke he couldn’t listen, if he fought he couldn’t win.

    Who was he, the one-armed man? Who could he have been? The God of Loss? The God of Small Things? The God of Goose Bumps and Sudden Smiles? Of Sourmetal Smells—like steel bus-rails and the smell of the bus conductor’s hands from holding them?
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quotedlast year
    Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar. An obstacle race, with a prize at the end

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