Being desperate to escape from her spleenful father, she finally convinces her parents to allow her to spend a summer with a distant aunt, who lived in Calcutta. There is not enough money in the family to bestow it as a dowry and get Ammu married. A son named Chacko and a daughter named Ammu. In the town, a couple named Pappachi (Imperial Entomologist) and Mammachi (Violinist) The story originates from Ayemenem, in Kerala, India and revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Esthappen. The book is a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards during the period of 1969 to 1993. The book probes into and deals with the petty issues which can affect people’s behavior and their lives. A tale about the fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the ‘Love Laws’ that lay down, ‘who should be loved, how and how much’. The novel may be remarked as semi-autobiographical which acquires her childhood experiences.
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