The god of small things
by
Roy, Arundhati, author.
Title
:
The god of small things
Author
:
Roy, Arundhati, author.
ISBN
:
9780812979657
9781606865613
Personal Author
:
Roy, Arundhati, author.
Edition
:
Random House Trade paperbacks edition.
Physical Description
:
333 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Series
:
Random House reader's circle
Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))
General Note
:
Originally published in the United States: New York : Random House, 1997.
Copyright © 1997 by Arundhati Roy.
Reading group guide copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.
Contents
:
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.
Abstract
:
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.
Subject Term
:
Social classes -- India -- Fiction.
Twins -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Kerala (India) -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
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| VC Durban North | Prescribed books | 000126558 | ROY | 2 |
| VC Sandton | General Books | 000109863 | ROY | 1 |
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