The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

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xii, 321 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Winner of the Booker Prize. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they 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), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river 'graygreen.' With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. / Arundhati Roy was trained as an architect. She has worked as a production designer and written the screenplays for two films. She lives in New Delhi. This is her first book." - Publisher.

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1998 Trade paperback Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No apparent marks or flaws. Appears as new. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade.

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1998 Trade paperback Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Fine. As new. No edgewear, markings or creasing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade.

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5/6/1998 Paperback Fine 0060977493 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any.

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New York U. S. A. 1998 Softcover As New 0060977493. Marfree, tight later prtg, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches; 331 pages; \nOnline Rev: In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language. From Publishers Weekly With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and keen insight into human nature, Roy's debut novel

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Trade Paperback Fine Trade Paperback-0060977493 [ROY, ARUNDHATI] GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE.

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1998 Trade paperback Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Same ISBN. Glossy New cover. Clean pages. Tight binding.

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