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The God of small things
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Winner of the Booker Prize. I've mixed ideas on reading this one, so it's going on its way to another BCer, and if I decide to read it at another time, I'm sure I'll find a copy. I hope it's enjoyed. =0)
Journal Entry 2 by DiamondLight at A Bookcrossing Home! in -- By hand, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, August 10, 2003
Released on Sunday, August 10, 2003 at A bookcrossing home! in To a new home!, Off to another bookcrosser! USA.
This book is being sent to a new bookcrossing home where I know it'll be happy. =0)
This book is being sent to a new bookcrossing home where I know it'll be happy. =0)
I received this in the mail today from DiamondLight in TX ... in trade for "The Black Lyon." Thanks for the trade!!! I had this on my wishlist from the BBC's "The Big Read" top 100 books.
c. 1997 -- 321 pages -- Hard Cover -- Winner of the Booker Prize -- #80 on BookCrossing 2008 Favorites list
Inside Flap: "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much." The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins 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 ...
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they 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, 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, beside their river "gray green. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it." 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.
"The God of Small Things" takes on the Big Themes -- Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy (in her 1st book) has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.
Update: PROMISED to wvgrrrrl when I'm done reading it. (9/3/03)
c. 1997 -- 321 pages -- Hard Cover -- Winner of the Booker Prize -- #80 on BookCrossing 2008 Favorites list
Inside Flap: "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much." The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins 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 ...
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they 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, 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, beside their river "gray green. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it." 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.
"The God of Small Things" takes on the Big Themes -- Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy (in her 1st book) has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.
Update: PROMISED to wvgrrrrl when I'm done reading it. (9/3/03)
I finished reading this book yesterday and just didn't care for it. Such a tragedy for the children. I just really had trouble stomaching this book, no matter how hard I tried to keep an open mind. The scene with Estha and the Orangedrink Lemondrink man at the Sound of Music ... the beatings ... the later relationship of the twins (Rahel and Estha) .... just isn't my taste in reading. The caste system in India is still very strong so I can understand the problems evoked with Ammu being with the 'Untouchable.' I still don't understand the meaning behind "God of Small Things" even though it was mentioned several times. I hope others enjoy this book more than I did.
Journal Entry 5 by ReadingGal79 at Fellow BookCrosser in By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Released on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at Fellow BookCrosser in Postal release, Postal Release Controlled Releases.
I'm mailing this today to wvgrrrrl in WV ... as part of a long-awaited trade. Thanks for your patience in allowing me to read it first.
DC#0303-0130-0000-3724-3979 - Delivered 2/25
I'm mailing this today to wvgrrrrl in WV ... as part of a long-awaited trade. Thanks for your patience in allowing me to read it first.
DC#0303-0130-0000-3724-3979 - Delivered 2/25
