Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things 34 likes Like The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. The God of Small Things Quotes Showing 61-90 of 449 Humans are animals of habit. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It’s that haunting.”- USA TodayĬompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. “ offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. the particulars of the plot is handled with greater virtuosity. An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Roy plays deft games with the chronological unfolding of her tale.
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