The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy, 1997
A Kerala childhood, a damp family house, and twins who share one grammar of memory; a novel about the small things that decide who may love whom.
Arundhati Roy
Roy trained as an architect before turning to fiction; her debut won the Booker Prize in 1997, making her the first Indian woman to do so.
Feels like longing, family and grief.
What a house becomes when no one has been living in it.
“It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire. The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft, and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives. In the undergrowth a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf strewn driveway. Books by Arundhati Roy
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