Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to Twins’ uncle Chacko – Sophie Mol’s father – tells the twins that “they were a family ofĪnglophiles. Years ensures that the legacy of colonization remains a palpable presence in Roy’s novel.

Learn more about Roy's story.Īlthough British colonization ended in India in 1947, its impact over the course of roughly 200 On obscenity charges in Kerala, her home state and the setting of The God of Small Things. The portrayal of such a relationship was so scandalous, that Roy was brought up The Meenachil River, and their mother, Ammu, has an affair with a Paravan – or Untouchable – Two-week period in 1969 when the twin’s cousin Sophie Mol visits from England and drowns in But the novel’s primary focus is on the lifelong impact of a Twin brother Estha are separated from each other at the age of eight, to the “present” of 1992, The narrative moves back and forth in time, from 1969 when protagonist Rahel and her Prize for literature in 1997 and has remained an important text in postcolonial studies, as itĮngages with the impacts of British colonization as well as the nature of the caste system in

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