Roy, Arundhati,

The god of small things / Arundhati Roy. - Special overseas edition. - 340 pages : 17 cm.

First published in Great Britain by Flamingo, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Arundhati Roy. Photograph of Arundhati Roy © Pradip Krishen.

Paradise pickles & preserves -- Pappachi's moth -- Big man the Laltain, small man the Mombatti -- Abhilash talkies -- God's own country -- Cochin kangaroos -- Wisdom exercise notebooks -- Welcome home, our Sophie Mol -- Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen, Mrs. Rajagopalan -- River in the boat -- God of small things -- Kochu Thomban -- Pessismist and the optimist -- Work is a struggle -- Crossing -- Few hours later -- Cochin harbor terminus -- History house -- Saving Ammu -- Madras mail -- Cost of living.

In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.

Booker Prize, 1997.

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Social classes--India--Fiction.
Twins--Fiction.
Social classes.
Twins.


Kerala (India)--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
India.
India--Kerala.


Fiction.

PR 9499.3 / R59 1997