TY - BOOK AU - Roy, Arundhati TI - God of Small Things SN - 9780143028574 U1 - 823 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Childhood experiences KW - Novel KW - India KW - Kerla KW - 1960 N2 - 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 ER -