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The god of small things / Arundhati Roy.

Title
The god of small things / Arundhati Roy.
Author
Roy, Arundhati
Publication
  • New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
  • ©2008

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Description
333 pages : portrait; 21 cm.
Summary
In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
Series Statement
Random House reader's circle
Uniform Title
Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))
Subject
  • Social classes > India > Fiction
  • Twins > Fiction
  • Classes sociales > Inde > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • FICTION / Literary
  • FICTION / Coming of Age
  • FICTION / Women
  • Social classes
  • Twins
  • Domestic fiction
  • Psychological fiction
  • Twins > Fiction
  • Kerala (India) > Fiction
  • India > Fiction
  • Kerala (Inde) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • India
  • India > Kerala
  • India > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Psychological fiction
  • Domestic fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Fiction
Note
  • Originally published in the United States: New York : Random House, 1997.
  • Copyright © 1997 by Arundhati Roy.
  • Reading group guide copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • Booker Prize, 1997.
Contents
Paradise pickles & preserves -- Pappachi's moth -- Big man the Laltain, small man the Mombatti -- Abhilash talkies -- God's own country -- Cochin kangaroos -- Wisdom exercise notebooks -- Welcome home, our Sophie Mol -- Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen, Mrs. Rajagopalan -- River in the boat -- God of small things -- Kochu Thomban -- Pessimist and the optimist -- Work is a struggle -- Crossing -- Few hours later -- Cochin harbor terminus -- History house -- Saving Ammu -- Madras mail -- Cost of living.
ISBN
  • 9780812979657
  • 0812979656
  • 9781606865613
  • 1606865617
  • 0329783084
  • 9780329783082
LCCN
  • 2016387515
  • 99974226562
OCLC
  • 229027853
  • SCSB-10872811
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library