The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
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 m...
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[In the following article, Lyall reports on Roy's winning of the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.]
An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Priz...
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[In the following review, the critic praises Roy's subtle handling of complex issues and her masterful storytelling.]
With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breath-takingly beautif...
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[In the following review, the critic commends Roy's "spectacular" first novel.]
A brilliantly constructed first novel that untangles an intricate web of sexual and caste conflict ...
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[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.]
There is no sin...
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[Shapiro is an American journalist. In the following review, she offers praise for The God of Small Things, in particular Roy's playful use of language and development of eccentric characters.]...
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[Eder is an American journalist and critic. In the following review, he commends Roy's evocative treatment of social upheaval and personal tragedy, but dislikes her narrative nonlinearity and e...
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[In the following review, Kakutani praises Roy's keen observation of human nature.]
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy's dazzling first novel, begins as a sort of mystery story. What...
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[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 "...
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[Craig is a South African-born English journalist. In the following review, she contends that, while The God of Small Things suffers from Roy's somewhat overwrought style, the book demonstrates...
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[In the following review, attempts to place The God of Small Things within the tradition of modern Indian literature written in English.]
"India: The Fiction Issue" sang the cover of The...
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In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson sets forth his theory of the nation, that "it is an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign." The kinds of commu...
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"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 ...
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Women cross social boundaries under the influences of both traditional and modern values, which often bring them various forms of oppression and abuse. Abuse is a very obvious part of the punishment p...
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Although desire presents itself in many charged forms in The God of Small Things, we can view the plot of the narrative as a series of disrupted yet connected events that are propelled by, or a produc...
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Time and space have always posed a threat to all creative artists. To move with time is the easiest way. To move back and forth is also not impossible. But to be timeless and space less- this is th...
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Arundhati Roy's "God of Small Things" is a novel that revolves around the workings of an Indian family in a society which lives rigidly by social norms and expectations. The story addresses issues suc...
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Teaching The God of Small Things
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