The God of small things
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I read this book many years ago and found it good. It will be part of a RABCK celebrating my 10 years as a BookCrosser.
The book has arrived safely.
Thank you very much, ronsar! I'm really looking forward to reading it!
Thank you very much, ronsar! I'm really looking forward to reading it!
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel 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), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river...
What a beautiful, tragic story!
Thanks for sharing this with me, ronsar!
What a beautiful, tragic story!
Thanks for sharing this with me, ronsar!
Journal Entry 4 by motherof11 at Asse, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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Enjoy!
Journal Entry 5 by veer23 at Asse, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Thursday, April 7, 2016
Thank you for sending me this book!
Journal Entry 6 by veer23 at obczGCKoetshuis in Roosdaal, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Saturday, May 21, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (5/20/2016 UTC) at obczGCKoetshuis in Roosdaal, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium
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Journal Entry 7 by veer23 at obczGCKoetshuis in Roosdaal, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium on Saturday, May 21, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (5/20/2016 UTC) at obczGCKoetshuis in Roosdaal, Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamant Belgium
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