Rahel notices that "at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Roy captures the children's candid observations but clouded understanding of adults' complex emotional lives. Beneath the drama of a family tragedy lies a background of local politics, social taboos and the tide of history-all of which come together in a slip of fate, after which a family is irreparably shattered. In a circuitous and suspenseful narrative, Roy reveals the family tensions that led to the twins' behavior on the fateful night that Sophie drowned. Set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s when Communism rattled the age-old caste system, the story begins with the funeral of young Sophie Mol, the cousin of the novel's protagonists, Rahel and her fraternal twin brother, Estha.
With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and keen insight into human nature, Roy's debut novel charts fresh territory in the genre of magical, prismatic literature. 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. 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.
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