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beutifully written and a great story=one of my favorite all time books
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Reader's Guide
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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
96 pages, Paperback
First published May 4,2002
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96 pages, Paperback
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June 1, 2002 by Continuum
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9780826453273
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0826453279
- Language
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English
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Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (b. 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political act...
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I will read this when I have nothing better to do or I'm at soccer practice. It's ok so far.
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A beautiful story of love, tradition and tragedy
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Very informative. Really aided with my understanding and studying of The God Of Small Things.
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Had there been more star ratings I would have given all of them to this novel as it is really worth it and many more.
In the start there doesn't seem to be any impressive story but then slowly it captures the reader forcefully and till the end you are not what you once were.....
but nothing changes actually , untouchables remain untouchables and sin remains sin .
Rahel and Astha are twins sharing a mysterious relationship together and they witness and live those realities , they detest but remain unable to change.
valutha is the most loveable and struggling hero of our times. he is not a traditional hero like he isn't a man of rank and he is not an over reacher but a struggler a doer who wants to be into the list of touchable so that he could be loved by his beloved ammu. but he fails as every hero does but only outwardly from inside he becomes a god of his own life he does what he likes , most of the time he is seen constructing broken things i.e. chairs , stools , ammu's life, kids' image of father etc. doing all things these touchable wont do for themselves, he was setting those things right. but he was untouchable and these people let him be away from them and he is killed in their love.....
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy said all in this quote , whatever there is in her novel. in short its about their secrets and punishments.
In the start there doesn't seem to be any impressive story but then slowly it captures the reader forcefully and till the end you are not what you once were.....
but nothing changes actually , untouchables remain untouchables and sin remains sin .
Rahel and Astha are twins sharing a mysterious relationship together and they witness and live those realities , they detest but remain unable to change.
valutha is the most loveable and struggling hero of our times. he is not a traditional hero like he isn't a man of rank and he is not an over reacher but a struggler a doer who wants to be into the list of touchable so that he could be loved by his beloved ammu. but he fails as every hero does but only outwardly from inside he becomes a god of his own life he does what he likes , most of the time he is seen constructing broken things i.e. chairs , stools , ammu's life, kids' image of father etc. doing all things these touchable wont do for themselves, he was setting those things right. but he was untouchable and these people let him be away from them and he is killed in their love.....
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy said all in this quote , whatever there is in her novel. in short its about their secrets and punishments.
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What a waste of time.
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Beautiful prose
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Half way through - for the secind time - and i'm loving it more - i found it quite tough going the first time round.
The way it drifts from one thought to the next (whilst filling in the gaps of the current tale - but its definitely worth reading - i love how she repeats the phrases each time she re-visits or repats a certain phrase, the most sophisticated form of cuteness i've encountered in a book in a while...
The way it drifts from one thought to the next (whilst filling in the gaps of the current tale - but its definitely worth reading - i love how she repeats the phrases each time she re-visits or repats a certain phrase, the most sophisticated form of cuteness i've encountered in a book in a while...
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