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The God of Small Things

• by Arundhati Roy
• Paperback / Softback

Second hand book in excellent condition

‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’

      This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among 
the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, 
and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the 
innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck 
that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle 
Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher) and their sworn 
enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun, incumbent grand-aunt).


      Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary 
sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit 
and magic.