num_pages: 340
description: "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river..."A banquet for all the senses", said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
language: English
title: The God of Small Things
titlecomplete: The God of Small Things
characters: Rahel, Velutha, Estha, Mammachi, Ammu, Baby Kochamma, Chacko
genres: Classics, Indian Literature, India, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 289667
places: Kerala, Aymanam, India, South Asia
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Flamingo