1997, `The God of Small Things`, Arundhati Roy
The year is 1969. In Kerala, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers` demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen. So begins a tale which took debutant Arundhati Roy to the heights of fame.
First Paragraph: 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. red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, flatly baffled in the sun. Getty Images
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