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The God of Small Things

Auteur(s): Arundhati Roy
Narrateur(s): Sneha Mathan
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Man Booker Prize Winner, 1997

Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published 20 years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.

Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family - their lonely, lovely mother Ammu (who loves by night the 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 Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

©1997 Arundhati Roy (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Créateurs sud-asiatiques Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Récits initiatiques Émotionnellement captivant Émouvant Sincère Classiques
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This book was reading long overdue. I get why it is such an important piece of literature. The narrative sinks into your bones and becomes a part of you. The narrator was perfect for the book.

Amazing prose!

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Listening to this book reminded me how words can be art, can paint elaborate pictures in your mind.. The performance is perfect, the story complex but poetic. I loved it!

Elegant and heartbreaking

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When I first embarked on the journey of "The God of Small Things," I thought this story is way to detailed but what I ended discovering is a craving for more. A magnificent work of human suffering and beauty. Narrator, Mathan, was completely captivating.

Great Listen

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I did enjoy the book but found it hard to follow in the beginning . The writers style of moving from past to present had me confused at times . All in all a good listen.

Enjoyed it

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This is a beautifully written story, but you know what they say about too much of a good thing. I prefer plot advancement to prose - but that’s just me. The novel reveals itself iteratively back and forth through time, rather than linearly. That was sometimes hard to follow in audiobook format. Overall an interesting and informative novel layered in truly sad and cruel story- don’t read this if you’re looking for a pick-me-up!

Beautiful writing, a bit too long for me

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