God of Small Things /
Roy, Arundhati
God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2002. - 339 p.
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.
9780143028574
Childhood experiences --Novel
India--Kerla--1960
823 / ROY-G
God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2002. - 339 p.
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.
9780143028574
Childhood experiences --Novel
India--Kerla--1960
823 / ROY-G