Posts Tagged as ‘India’

March 9, 2009

God of Small Things- Review

Tasha Rennie
Arundhati Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Thing, surprised the world with its unconventional style, controversial subjects and unforgettable emotion. It earned Roy a Booker Prize as well as obscenity charges in India. Her novel tells the story of two-egg twins, Rahel and Estha, growing up in India, and the events that passed [...]

March 9, 2009

Hope is left: The God of Small Things and how Roy can leave hope.

Ben Turland

Indian author Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize winning novel The God of Small Things has a plot layout similar to how an architect designs a house. This is not that surprising being that Roy was first studying as an Architect in New Delhi. The blueprints are laid for the whole story in [...]

March 2, 2009

The God Of Small Things Discussion- The Ending

The End of Small Things
Tasha Rennie
Upon finishing Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, I was quite struck by the way in which the novel was concluded. I was both surprised and satisfied, and I found that it was definitely an ending that invoked thought and reflection on several issues.
Firstly, the novel ends with the [...]