Arundhati Roy’s heart-rending novel captures moments of intense sweetness, all the more precious for their rarity. Here the two children make of them a scant necklace of joy-beads.

‘Moments like these, the twins treasured and threaded like precious beads on a (somewhat scanty) necklace.’ 

Source: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)

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