Roy graduated with a degree in architecture, from the School of Planning and Architecture, in Delhi. She is also essayist, and a renowned political activist.
Discover more in this Booker Prize winning novel of the year 1997.Īrundhati Roy is an esteemed Booker Prize winning Indian author. Their life abruptly takes an unanticipated turn. This is when the twins Rahel and Esthappen realize the terrible fact that things can change in a day. When Chacko gets to know the story of his ex-wife’s husband, he invites her and her daughter Sophie for Christmas. In an attempt to escape the misery, she elopes to live with her grandmother, Mammachi and Chacko. The book poignantly describes the lonely and wretched life of Ammu, mother of the twins, who had married a man who turns out to be an alcoholic and is also obnoxious towards her.
Set in a district of Kerala, the story brings out the myriad faces of caste system, communism and the typical Syrian Christian way of life of Kerala. The twins reunite in 1993, at the age of 31. In 1969, Rahel and Esthappen are seven year-olds. It is about how smallest of the things affect the behaviour and lives of people. *"A banquet for all the senses"*, said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel-a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.The God of Small Things is a Booker Prize winning debut novel penned by Arundhati Roy. When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how.
*"They all crossed into forbidden territory.
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