The god of small things, Arundhati Roy
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The god of small things, Arundhati Roy
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fiction
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The god of small things
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35744382
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Arundhati Roy
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The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. 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. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction
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