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 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 [...]
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