Ammu falls in love with Velutha Paapen, a Paraven (Untouchable) who works for the family’s Pickle Factory, a man the twins already list amongst their most-loved. non-identical) twins, and their mother Ammu. The main characters are Esthappen (Estha) and Rahel, seven-year-old two-egg (i.e. This (semi-autobiographical) story takes place in the village of Ayemenem and the town of Kottayam, near Cochin in Kerala, and is set principally during two time periods: December 1969 and 23 years later.
The God of Small Things, the first (and so far, only) novel by Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was written between 19. The novel is a haunting, splendid telling of this vividly worded story. Sophie Mol is the children’s cousin, and while playing out on the bayou, Sophie Mol is drowned, tragedy striking without warning. The children soon learn that their lives can change in a moment and that love and happiness are not permanent. The Kerala society in which they reside is described as being tradition-bound and highly conventional. The children are living with their divorced mother Ammu. The story follows a 7-year old girl named Rahel and her twin brother Estha.
The story covers the lives of a pair of twins who experience loss at an early age, and is a compelling family drama that unfolds before the reader, demonstrating how the small things in life can leave an astonishingly profound mark on a person’s life. The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Her Man Booker prizewinning novel, The God of Small Things took her over four years to write. Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist born in 1961.
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