Chacko went to Oxford and married Margaret Kochamma, an English woman. Baby Kochamma is a bitter, jealous old woman who unrequitedly loved an Irish missionary. Behind her house is the Meenachal River and her pickle factory, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. By 1969 Pappachi is dead and Mammachi is blind. In the backstory before 1969, Mammachi was married to Pappachi, an Imperial Entomologist who beat her cruelly. Most of the plot occurs in 1969, focusing on the seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel, who live with their mother Ammu, their grandmother Mammachi, their uncle Chacko, and their great-aunt Baby Kochamma. The story centers around the wealthy, land-owning, Syrian Christian Ipe family of Ayemenem, a town in Kerala, India. She is also the author of widely read books like Walking with the Comrades, Broken Republic: Three Essays, The Hanging of Afzal Guru, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes On Democracy, and Kashmir: The Case for Freedom.The events of The God of Small Things are revealed in a fragmentary manner, mostly jumping back and forth between scenes in 19, with backstory scattered throughout. She currently resides in New Delhi with her husband Pradip Krishen. Roy has also outwardly critiqued the American military assault of Afghanistan. She has partaken in protests supporting Kashmir’s independence. Apart from writing, she is keenly involved in political matters. After the unquestionable triumph of her debut novel, The God of Small Things, Roy became a screenwriter for the television serial The Banyan Tree. Roy graduated with a degree in architecture, from the School of Planning and Architecture, in Delhi. She is also essayist, and a renowned political activist. Discover more in this Booker Prize winning novel of the year 1997.Īrundhati Roy is an esteemed Booker Prize winning Indian author. Their life abruptly takes an unanticipated turn. This is when the twins Rahel and Esthappen realize the terrible fact that things can change in a day. When Chacko gets to know the story of his ex-wife’s husband, he invites her and her daughter Sophie for Christmas. In an attempt to escape the misery, she elopes to live with her grandmother, Mammachi and Chacko. The book poignantly describes the lonely and wretched life of Ammu, mother of the twins, who had married a man who turns out to be an alcoholic and is also obnoxious towards her. Set in a district of Kerala, the story brings out the myriad faces of caste system, communism and the typical Syrian Christian way of life of Kerala. The twins reunite in 1993, at the age of 31. In 1969, Rahel and Esthappen are seven year-olds. It is about how smallest of the things affect the behaviour and lives of people. The God of Small Things is a Booker Prize winning debut novel penned by Arundhati Roy.

The god of little things