The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy.
Edition: U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thorndike, ME, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780783882963
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Social classes -- Fiction; Twins -- Fiction; Large type books; India -- Fiction
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
Notes: "G.K. Hall large print core collection"--T.p. verso.