Twins in Kerala carry for decades the weight of a single catastrophic summer -- a forbidden love, a child's death, and the caste laws that made both inevitable.
About This Book
An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness “[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA Today Compared 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.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to feel something deeply, books that stay with you long after the last page. This is a book that asks something of you. Dense, layered, and best read slowly. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. If you prefer to read at arm's length, this one may get too close.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something moving and emotionally resonant, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
The God of Small Things explores love in its most complicated forms, family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen, power structures and how they shape individual lives, and identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.
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