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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arundhati Roy |
ISBN: | 0060977493 9780060977498 |
OCLC Number: | 37864514 |
Notes: | Subtitle from cover. "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by Random House"--Title page verso. |
Awards: | Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1997 |
Description: | xii, 321 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Paradise pickles & preserves -- Pappachi's moth -- Big man the Laltain, 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 -- Pessimist and the optimist -- Work is struggle -- Crossing -- Few hours later -- Cochin harbor terminus -- History house -- Saving Ammu -- Madras mail -- Cost of living. |
Responsibility: | Arundhati Roy. |
Abstract:
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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