Yes, it had all begun with Sophie Mol in the days before the Love Laws were rewritten. A river swollen, engorged with meaningless imagery. A river with a rushing, rolling, fishswimming sense. But these too are Small Things.Įven before Sophie Mol's funeral, the police found Velutha by the river. But these are Small Things.Īnd that was before they were nearly born on a bus, before Ammu and her father were divorced, before Ammu died at 31, a dieable viable age, before the unthinkable became thinkable and Sophie Mol died at seven, a dieable, non viable age, before Estha was Returned, before she had gone to Canada to get married, before she had got divorced.
She remembers what the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man did to Estha even though he never actually told her what happened. A space when Life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, before Edges, Borders and Capital Letters began to appear. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.Her mind inevitably goes back to a deeper, more secret poetic space. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It’s that haunting.”- USA TodayĬompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. “ offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
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