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Novel · Post-colonial literature

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things · 1997

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Hurting others Family

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Post-colonial literature

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Novel

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1997

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Arundhati Roy

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

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