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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100679457313
ISBN-139780679457312
eBay Product ID (ePID)924409
Product Key Features
Publication Year1997
TopicPsychological, Family Life, General
Book TitleGod of Small Things
Number of PagesXii, 321 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorArundhati Roy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight18 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-039190
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Dazzling . . . as subtle as it is powerful." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It's that hauntingly wonderful." USA Today "The quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinaryat once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supplethat the reader remains enthralled all the way through." The New York Times Book Review "A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does." John Updike, The New Yorker "Outstanding. A glowing first novel." Newsweek "Splendid and stunning." The Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal823
Synopsis"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, 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., "A banquet for all the senses," said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
LC Classification NumberPR9499.3.R59G63 1997
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- 07. Sep. 2025
Great book. Good price
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- 06. Jul. 2017
A little boring
Too much description of little things about people-no lesson to learnBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Mär. 2020
Wonderful story
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- 20. Jan. 2021
The god of small things
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