1997The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Roy's Kerala is a green, waterlogged world of rubber and pepper, of a pickle factory and a river that turns from playground to grave. The map gathers around Ayemenem, a real village on the Meenachal near Kottayam, then reaches west to the backwaters and north to Cochin, where the family's day at the cinema sets the tragedy moving.
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