"May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month." Not since the opening of Lolita — that play of tongue against teeth, testing the sounds in a way at once childish and sexual — has a novel felt so ...

Explore the themes of forbidden romance and social commentary in 'The God of Small Things'. Unpack the intricate layers of Arundhati Roy's masterpiece through this analysis.

Book Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy: 5 Reasons To Read It Now The picturesque depiction of the Ayemenem house, aroma of pickle factory, deep dives of Ammu in the ponds of dark ...

The rest of Ayemenem was more welcoming. I spent a great amount of my time stopping villagers and requesting them to pose with my paperback copy of Small Things.

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"May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid," she wrote of a small village on the south-western state's backwaters.

Does it mean you’ve eaten fish?” In the end, historical and social pressures, the impossible rigidity of the caste system, for instance, tell on the love and longing of the Ayemenem householders.

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dust-green trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst ...

May in Ayemenem is a hot brooding month, where the days are long and humid, crows gorge on bright mangoes, the grass in the outfield scorches to a whitish haze, the pitches crumble and crack ...