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Book Description:
Members who requested this book also requested:Southern India 1969. Here, armed only with the invincible innocence of children, Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, who loves by night the same man her children adore by day...their blind grandmother, who plays Handel on her violin...their beloved uncle, A Rhodes Scholar pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher...their enemy, an ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt...and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth. But when their English cousin and her mother arrive for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in an instant, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. 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.
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Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Family Saga
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( R ) >> Roy, Arundhati
- Literature & Fiction >> Women's Fiction >> Domestic Life
- Substores >> Reading Group Guides >> Literature & Fiction >> Popular Fiction
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Jessica W. (
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
Absolutely amazing, must-read! Roy tells the story in backwards order and it's just fascinating.
Terry A. from WASH BORO, PA wrote on 5/1/2007...
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
A marvelous story told in an intriguing manner! She captures the thought processes of the children beautifully! I had never heard of this author, but I will look for other books by her.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is an incredible book, and just like the river that is so central to the haunting yet beautiful lives of the main characters. The prose will catch you up and carry you along in its flow, while the story meanders and ebbs and flows -- sometimes tranquil, and sometimes fast and furious. Wow.
Carol S. from ROSWELL, GA wrote on 1/28/2007...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
A little slow, cumbersome at first, but beauty unfolds as does creative strength.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was absolutely breath-taking. I can't praise this author enough--her artistry is spectacular. If you enjoy novels by Indian novelists, you can't afford to miss this one.
Nancy P. from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote on 5/3/2007...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Beautiful language and a haunting tale of love and loss. Read it for a book group and all of us had praise for the book. Roy's first novel and a Mann Booker prize winner.
Andrea M. from HOFFMAN EST, IL wrote on 3/10/2007...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Honestly, I know this book has been well-received but I found it to be tedious. It was a bookclub selection--never picked it up again.
Shana P. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I had a hard time with this book. I liked the unusual, non-linear style in theory, but had a hard time staying with it. It's an unique way to go about a common seeming plot, but I felt that the style and language actually detracted from my experience.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is the story of boy-girl twins growing up in India. Blessed by a family of moderate wealth, but cursed by a missing father and relatives who take them in as a duty, but share no love with them. Full of colorful descriptions of their life as seen by the children, their mother and others. Contains an illicit love affair and a sad end of all things, blessed only by the God of Small Things. Winner of the Booker Prize.
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Wrick R. from BELLEVUE, WA wrote on 8/31/2008...Fantastic book. Set in the background of kerala. The story theme moves back and forth between past and present in different times and then finally it merges.
Tried & tried to get into this book. Found it very hard to hold my attention. Didn't care for her writing style.
I wasn't sure what to think about this book when I finished. While it was beautifully written, the plot was sometimes hard to understand. Yet, weeks later as I think about it, I appreciate more the intricate story of the twins Rahel and Estha, and what happened when their cousin Sophie Mol visited one summer.
Abominable. What I learned: Arundhati Roy is a good writer and yet this story is horrible. I wanted to scratch my eyes out.
just not my type of book. read this on a beach vacation years ago but struggled with it.
Pat M. from ORADELL, NJ wrote on 5/7/2007...Rich detail in this story of an Indian family and its complications as well as its adjustmetns to a modernizing country.
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.
Jessica M. (The language of this book is beautiful. The God of Small Things is, in a word, captivating.
A beautiful novel set in India. Amongst the beauty and poverty there is a tragic and sensual tone to the book that keeps one spellbound. The author won The Booker Prize, England's most prestigious literary award for this in 1997. Worth reading!