The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyIntroducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come. He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair Estha and Rahel, seven year old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of

Sit back and enjoy the journey

Stranded at boarding school

' LISA MCINERNEY

It's a story of colonization and immigration

'An antiheroine able to best villainous male protagonists such as Patrick Bateman any day' OBSERVER

psychological trauma

in search of our piratical heritage

But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country

Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a historical moment of moral crisis

Their sound defined an era

they love each other

But in the end