To get closer to him, Baby Kochamma converted to Roman Catholicism and joined a convent against her father's wishes. As a young girl, Baby Kochamma fell in love with Father Mulligan, a young Irish priest who had come to Ayemenem. The multi-generational, Syrian Christian family home in Ayemenem also includes Pappachi's sister, Navomi Ipe, known as Baby Kochamma. Chacko has returned to India from England following his divorce from an English woman, Margaret, and the subsequent death of Pappachi. Ammu gives birth to Estha and Rahel, leaves her husband, and returns to Ayemenem to live with her parents and brother, Chacko. She later discovers that he is an alcoholic, and he physically abuses her and tries to pimp her to his boss. She leaves Ayemenem, and to avoid returning, she marries a man only known by the name of Baba in Calcutta. The novel has a disjointed narrative the temporal setting shifts back and forth between 1969, when fraternal twins Rahel, a girl, and Esthappen, a boy, are seven years old, and 1993, when the twins are reunited.Īmmu Ipe is desperate to escape her ill-tempered father, known as Pappachi, and her bitter, long-suffering mother, known as Mammachi. The story is set in Aymanam, part of Kottayam district in Kerala, India. ( April 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
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