The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

"And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside."

Synopsis (from Amazon)

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy's debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story ,and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. 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 "the big things" that lurk unsaid in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.

Rants & Raves

I started this book a year ago but stopped at the middle. Took it out of my shelf days ago and started reading it again from the start and I'm thankful I did the right thing.

I loved its melancholic air. Roy's play of words are amazingly amusing, which, somehow lessens the sadness that creeps within each character. What really made this book hard to put down is its backward chronology. Like, he started with Estha, who just suddenly stopped talking at the start of the novel and unfolds the tragedy at the latter part.