Title:
The god of small things
Author:
Roy, Arundhati, author.
ISBN:
9780812979657
9781606865613
Personal 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.