The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set 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 fami...
The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set 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.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in ...
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.
1997年,兰登书屋出版了印度作家阿兰达蒂·洛伊(Arundhati Roy)的半自传体小说《微物之神》(The God of Small Things),洛伊凭借此书夺得当年的英国小说创作大奖布克奖。 1.洛伊的生平和创作 洛伊1961年出生在印度东北部的山城锡隆。父亲是孟加拉裔的印度教徒,一个茶叶...
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被禁止的爱 文 | 胡桑 在迷宫般的小说《微物之神》(The God of Small Things)的核心,印度小说家阿兰达蒂·洛伊(Arundhati Roy,1961- )安置了一张威严而残忍的、由“爱的律法”钩织而成的罗网,这张网一再地闪现于小说之中,成为进入小说核心的秘密通道——“或许阿慕(Am...
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0 有用 crab canon 2012-01-04 00:30:23
Arundhati Roy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple
1 有用 芒果鱼🇵🇸 2024-02-09 00:56:32 马来西亚
What can I say? A real masterpiece
5 有用 ycpeng 2013-10-16 21:53:00
看到40%才刚意识到故事的主线是什么,读完了才发现其实故事的结局在前40%已经交待完了,神奇。
0 有用 zy 2011-03-06 07:45:57
wow!
0 有用 闻夕felicity 2014-03-26 20:47:36
很喜欢这种悠长细腻的表述