The god of small things book

Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an…

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The God of Small Things

📚𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀✍️ . . . . #thoughts #thegodofsmallthings #writersofinstagram #wordeyar #alexanderwordeyar #instaread

In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.

' This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. ' The God of small things by Arundhati Roy.