The Man Booker Prize (1997) winning book The God of Small Things
is Arundhati Roy’s only novel.
The story plots the social circumstances of South Indian state of Kerala in 1960s. The book is about the sufferings of twin children Estha and Rahel as a consequence of social hypocrisy. She pictured how caste system and superstition influenced social norms and how lives were demolished as a result them. Through the death of a child Sophie Mol may seem irrelevant to the main course of story, but through it she pointed out how things can change in a day. Roy’s story plotting and language fashion is rhythmic, unusually chronological and majestic. The book ends with a feeling of how things could actually be!
The story plots the social circumstances of South Indian state of Kerala in 1960s. The book is about the sufferings of twin children Estha and Rahel as a consequence of social hypocrisy. She pictured how caste system and superstition influenced social norms and how lives were demolished as a result them. Through the death of a child Sophie Mol may seem irrelevant to the main course of story, but through it she pointed out how things can change in a day. Roy’s story plotting and language fashion is rhythmic, unusually chronological and majestic. The book ends with a feeling of how things could actually be!
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