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In the wider society of Kerala, the Communist Party is gaining power and threatens to overthrow landlords like the Ipes.

After the twins were born the two separated and Ammu moved back to Ayemenem. Ammu married Baba, trying to escape Ayemenem, but Baba turned out to be an abusive alcoholic. Chacko returned to Ayemenem and took over the pickle factory. They had a daughter, Sophie Mol, and then Margaret left Chacko for a man named Joe. Chacko went to Oxford and married Margaret Kochamma, an English woman. Baby Kochamma is a bitter, jealous old woman who unrequitedly loved an Irish missionary. Behind her house is the Meenachal River and her pickle factory, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. By 1969 Pappachi is dead and Mammachi is blind. In the backstory before 1969, Mammachi was married to Pappachi, an Imperial Entomologist who beat her cruelly. Most of the plot occurs in 1969, focusing on the seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel, who live with their mother Ammu, their grandmother Mammachi, their uncle Chacko, and their great-aunt Baby Kochamma. The story centers around the wealthy, land-owning, Syrian Christian Ipe family of Ayemenem, a town in Kerala, India. “The God of Little Things” is a passionate family saga that, through its ripples of magical realism, has led critics to compare Arundhati Roy with Salmon Rushdie and García Márquez.The events of The God of Small Things are revealed in a fragmentary manner, mostly jumping back and forth between scenes in 19, with backstory scattered throughout. Where only the little things are said and the big things remain unsaid. These are the short stories of a family living in a troubled time and of a country whose essence seems eternal. His younger great-aunt, Baby Kochamma, resigned to postpone his earthly love for the Father for eternity. Uncle Chacko’s, who longs for the visit of his former English wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Sophie Mol. Grandma Mammachi, the matriarch whose body bears scars from Pappachi’s violence. That of his mother Ammu, who loves at night the man whom children love by day, and of Velutha, the untouchable god of little things. The stories of twins Estha and Rahel, born in 1962, amid news of a lost war. “The God of Little Things” is the three-generation story of a family from the Kerala region of southern India, scattered all over the world and reunited in their homeland.