The God of Small Things

A deep family saga, a story of forbidden love, and a poignant political drama, this book tells the story of a prosperous Indian family whose lives change forever on a fateful day in 1969. The arrival of younger cousin Sophie shakes the world of seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel and leads to accidental — and not accidental — tragic consequences that teach them that everything around can suddenly take on new, ugly forms and even come to a standstill forever, — and only the river will continue to carry its waters…