num_pages: 455
description: 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...--back cover
language: English
title: The God of Small Things
titlecomplete: The God of Small Things (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
characters: Mammachi, Estha, Rahel, Baby Kochamma, Chacko, Ammu, Velutha
genres: India, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Classics, Indian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 289809
places: India, Aymanam, Kerala, South Asia
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: G K Hall & Co