"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 ...

The story takes place in Ayemenem House in 1960, where the dizygotic twins, Estha and Rahel have come back to their hometown after reaching a viable, die-able age.

First lines of 'God of Small Things' - 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, dustgreen trees.

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Ayemenem is not a fictional place. It is an actual village where we all lived in the 1960s. The house we lived in is still there. My maternal family still lives there.

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 ...

We’re all mad here: Review of Manu Bhattathiri’s ‘The Oracle of Karuthupuzha’ Manu Bhattathiri strikes again, taking us back to that haven of oddballs, Karuthupuzha ...