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The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, India, in 1960 to a Syrian Christian mother and a Hindu father. The marriage did not last. When Roy was a toddler, her mother, Mary Roy, obtained a divorce and returned to her ancestral home in...

The God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-autobiographical, politically charged novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of a pair of fraternal twins who become victims of circumstance. The book is a description...

[Updike is an American novelist, critic, essayist, and short story writer. In the following review, he lauds Roy's achievements in The God of Small Things despite what he considers her "overwrought" passages and self-conscious "artiness."]

[In the following review, Truax notes that The God of Small Things is at times painful and difficult to read, but maintains that the reader is richly rewarded for finishing the novel.]

[In the following review, attempts to place The God of Small Things within the tradition of modern Indian literature written in English.]

Examines aspects of time and space in Arundhathi Roy's The God of Small Things. Explores Roy's use of irony and a timeless, spaceless dimension. Provides a brief plot summary.

Provides a plot summary for the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Analyzes the theme of desire in the novel. Applauds the nonlinear plot format.

based on "the God of small things", "Colonised people are not simply those whose labour has been appropriated but those whose soul dwells an inferiority complex created by the death and burial of the its local cultural originality" How true is this statement?