The release date for the English version of 'The God of Small Things' by
Arundhati Roy is Jan 1997. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
We're in 1969. An automobile with chrome tailfins, a skyblue Plymouth, gets stuck on the highway in the middle of a Marxist workers' protest in the southernmost state of India, Kerala. The story of Rahel and Esthappen, the two egg twins, starts as they get into the automobile....
Armed only with the unbreakable innocence of children, they create a childhood for themselves under the shadow of the wreck that is their family: their enemy, Baby Kochamma (former nun and incumbent grandaunt), their blind grandmother Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their lonely, lovely mother Ammu (who loves the man her children love by day), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
Things Can Change in a Day is a lesson Esthappen and Rahel learn when their English cousin Sophie Mol and her mother Margaret Kochamma come for a Christmas visitation. That by their "graygreen" river, life might contort into new, horrible forms, or perhaps end forever. that contains fish. containing the trees and the sky. And the shattered golden moon in it at night.
The intricately designed narrative unravels with a wrenching feeling of dread and inevitable fate. However, nothing can really prepare you for what's at its core.
The Big Themes of Love, Madness, and Hope are assumed by the God of Small Things. Abundant Joy. This writer has the audacity to defy convention. must disturb established patterns and produce the language she needs, a language that is both unique and traditional. Arundhati Roy has written a novel that is driven by humor and charm, yet is grounded in agony.