Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things

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…showed last 75 words of 394 total…are truly alive. They are the ones who come out to touch the river while the others perform elaborate plays of respectability. There are numerous elements that linger in the memory after reading this novel. For example, the recurring theme of hopeless love: the hopeless love of Baby Kochamma for Father Mulligan, the hopeless love of Chacko for Margaret Kochamma, and the more than hopeless, but tragic love of Ammu and her twins for Velutha.