![]() ![]() On the train ride back to Ayemenem, Ammu cannot speak except to say "He's dead. ![]() The rest of the family refuses to acknowledge the twins and Ammu. Rahel believes that Sophie is awake during her funeral and buried alive. We switch to the funeral of Sophie Mol, when the twins are seven years old. The novel opens with Rahel's return to Ayemenem after hearing that her twin brother, Estha, has come home. In Roy's world, there is no definitive story, only many different stories that fuse to form a kaleidoscopic impression of events. ![]() Its epigraph is a quotation from contemporary writer John Berger: "Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one." She uses this idea to establish her nonlinear, multi-perspective way of storytelling, which gives value to points of view as "Big" as a human being's and as "Small" as a cabbage-green butterfly's. The God of Small Things tells the story of one family in the town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India. ![]()
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