‘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.
Review: ‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic… The God of Small Things achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece.’ Observer ‘The God of Small Things genuinely is a masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way, and there can be little doubt that posterity will place it very near the top of any shortlist of Indian novels published this century.’ William Dalyrmple, Harpers and Queen. ‘The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary – at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple – that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finish … it evokes in the reader a feeling of gratitude and wonderment.’ New York Times
Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1997. Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and Best of the Bestsellers 1998.
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