The God of Small Things
A Historical, Asian Literature, Novels book. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times...
"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."The year is 1969. 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. 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). 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...
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Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things // It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things // Her grief grieved her. His devastated her. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things //
What does it say about me that I get sort of happy to find an imposter in the canon? I feel like the gestapo, that terrifyingly powerful... like I'm finally undoing or deciphering the spell that this work invokes upon the general (albeit intelligent reading) audience. Others could have easily taken its place on that memorable list...... adjective-lovers, women who sometimes fantasize about Going A Little Nuts A lyrical, mysterious tale of misunderstanding and pain, echoing through the years. At its dark heart, it demonstrates how small things can have multiple and major consequences, meaning that everything can change in a single day. "Anything can happen to anyone. It's best to be prepared." - and these fears trigger tragedy. It is set...
