The God Of Small Things: A Novel (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: The God of Small Things: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Random House

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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. Its that haunting.USA TodayCompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roys modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing big things [that] lurk unsaid in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. Críticas Dazzling . . . as subtle as it is powerful.Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times [The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. Its that haunting.USA Today The quality of Ms. Roys narration is so extraordinaryat once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supplethat the reader remains enthralled all the way through.The New York Times Book Review A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.John Updike, The New Yorker Outstanding. A glowing first novel.Newsweek Splendid and stunning.The Washington Post Book World Biografía del autor Arundhati Roy was trained as an architect. She has worked as a production designer and written the screenplays for two films. She lives in New Delhi. This is her first book. Extracto. © Reimpreso con autorización. Reservados todos los derechos. Chapter 1 PARADISE PICKLES & PRESERVES May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. The nights are clear, but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation. But by early June the southwest monsoon breaks and there are three months of wind and water with short spells of sharp, glittering sunshine that thrilled children snatch to play with. The countryside turns an immodest green. Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. Brick walls turn mossgreen. Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers burst through latente banks and spill across the flooded roads. Boats ply in the bazaars. And small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways. 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. The house itself looked empty. The doors and windows were locked. The front verandah bare. Unfurnished. But the skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins was still parked outside, and inside, Baby Kochamma was still alive. She was Rahels baby grandaunt, her grandfathers younger sister. Her name was really Navomi, Navomi Ipe, but every

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Roy, Arundhati
-Editorial: Random House
-N° Paginas: 352
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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ASIN: 0812979656
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Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Random House
Titulo del libro: The God of Small Things: A Novel (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Roy, Arundhati
Fecha de publicación: 2008
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812979657
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SKU: 9780812979657