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008 961003s1997 ii 000 1 eng
020 _a8186939008 (pbk.)
040 _aDLC
_beng
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_dOCoLC
_dDLC
_dTOC
_dOSt
043 _aa-ii---
082 0 0 _a823
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_bROG
100 1 _aRoy, Arundhati.
245 1 4 _aThe god of small things /
_cArundhati Roy.
260 _aIndia :
_bIndiaInk,
_cc1997.
300 _axii, 321 p. ;
_c22 cm.
365 _aRS
_b450
520 _aThe year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they 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), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
520 8 _aWhen their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it."
650 4 _aSocial classes
_xFiction.
650 4 _aTwins
_xFiction.
651 4 _aIndia
_xFiction.
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
_2lcsh
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcsh
942 _2ddc
_cBK
999 _c2692
_d2692