The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala\, on the southernmost tip of India\, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfin s is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen\, and so begins their tale. . . .
\nArmed only with the invincible innocence of children\, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is thei r family&mdash\;their lonely\, lovely mother\, Ammu (who loves by night th e man her children love by day)\, their blind grandmother\, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin)\, their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar\, pickle baron\, radical Marxist\, bottom-pincher)\, their enemy\, Baby Koc hamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt)\, and the ghost of an imperial ento mologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
\nWhen their En glish cousin\, Sophie Mol\, and her mother\, Margaret Kochamma\, arrive on a Christmas visit\, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new\, ugly shapes\, even cease forever\, b eside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night\, the broken yellow moon in it.
\nThe brilliantly p lotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitabili ty. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.
\nThe God of Small Things \;takes on the Big Themes&mdash\;Love. Madness. H ope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislo cate received rhythms and create the language she requires\, a language th at is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a bo ok that is anchored to anguish\, but fueled by wit and magic.
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