The God of Small Things is the first novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It won the Booker Prize in 1997. The novel is told from the point of view of Rahel, who speaks for herself and the now silent Estha, her fraternal twin. The action pivots mainly on two time periods, 1969 and 1993, moving back and forth from 1993 (the present) to the time of the twins’ greatest trauma, which occurred upon the childhood visit of their cousin Sophie Mol.
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 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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The God of Small Things
