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The god of small things

Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st HarperPerennial edView all editions and formats
Summary: The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction., Domestic fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 0060977493 9780060977498
OCLC Number: 37864514
Notes: "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by Random House"--T.p. verso.
Awards: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1997.
Description: xii, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Paradise pickles & preserves -- Pappachi's moth -- Big man the Laltrain, small man the Mombatti -- Abhilash talkies -- God's own country -- Cochin kangaroos -- Wisdom exercise notebooks -- Welcome home, our Sophie Mol -- Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen, Mrs. Rajagopalan -- River in the boat -- God of small things -- Kochu Thomban -- Pessismist and the optimist -- Work is a struggle -- Crossing -- Few hours later -- Cochin harbor terminus -- History house -- Saving Ammu -- Madras mail -- Cost of living.
Responsibility: Arundhati Roy.

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The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction.

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