Pros: Well-written, interesting concepts are depicted, very powerful themes Cons: Hard to read
Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things is a globally acclaimed work which received the Booker Prize in London. The Booker Prize is awarded to pieces of literature which display the authentic and the exotic in terms of themes such as life struggle and the ...
Pros: beautiful, detailed, prose; masterly use of language; vivid evocation of childhood; excellent characterization Cons: foreshadowing sustained throughout entire novel--can be frustrating to some readers
Rahel and Estha are fraternal twins living on sufferance at their grandparents’ home, the old and rambling Ayemenem House. Their fatherless status stigmatises them, at least in the eyes of their malicious great-aunt. But their mother, Ammu, despite ...
Pros: Incredible language, honest description of India, fascinating plot Cons: None at all
I bought this book before going on a long plane trip (23 hours on a plane requires a new book, don't you think?) and because I had read all the hype about it winning the 1997 Booker prize. My approach to it was mixed, I had heard some rave reviews and...
Pros: A complete whole, well written. Cons: I would have enjoyed it more if Baby suffered a terrible fate.
The Indian Caste system is once again the primary villain here. Arundhati Roy's "The God Of Small Things" reinforces the images of stereotypical India, with its unfathomable depth of resistance against change in its basic social structure, the ...
Pros: booker prize Cons: too melodramatic, language
....That is how I reacted after reading this book, why did I ever pick it up? I usually don't regret reading books but this one didn't go down well with me. Why? Let me try and explain. I know it got the booker prize but still I didn't like it.
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Pros: An occasional piece of beautiful prose. Cons: All the rest of the writing (and, of course, the story itself).
In The God of Small Things, Roy does an impressive job in detailing the utter depravity of man. In fact, so thorough is her description that she allows for no tabla rasa in the young, no savior for the faithful and no good side of man to counter the...
Kerala, India. A girl, a boy, and a mother. They stand in the corner for a nine-year-old girl’s funeral. No one looks at them. No one talks to them. They are not Untouchables; in the eyes of India, they are worse. They are lovers of the wrong...
Pros: A stunning debut in its continued use of imagery. Cons: All the imagery cannot conceal its predictable, though tragic, plot.
Reading Arundhati Roy's first novel, "The God of Small Things", is like wandering through a sleeping person's subconscious. The details of the story come to the reader in snatches, a puzzle we are able to decode more and more as the pages...
Pros: Some great characters Cons: Too much literary hullabaloo
I think maybe it would have helped if I had studied this book in my Booker Prize fiction class--maybe I would have understood the intent of the author better... maybe I would have understood some of the historical significance of the novel more...
Pros: Roy’s remarkable style of narration. Cons: The description of Ammu and Velutha making love is a bit pornographic.
A story about love, sex, twins, untouchability and above all about breaking rules. In a society where divorces are very rare and often considered as a taboo, we have a family where both the children (Ammu & Chacko) are divorcees.
Ammu knows...
Pros: Palpable imagery, concrete characters, delicately built plot. Cons: Moving, but stodgy language.
You'll have to pace yourself to the prose. The language is very fluent and very rythemic, but first you'll have to adapt to its rythem. It's a bit like hardcore Indian Ragas, once your ears are accustomed to them, you'll be able to enjoy them,...
Pros: Beautifully written. The colloquial language takes the reader to a different world. Cons: Very dense reading. There are graphic sexual and violent scenes explicitly described.
The book was very confusing at the beginning but once past a certain point, it's very good. The first chapter is a summary of the book. (A little like "Slaughter House Five" by Kurt Vonnegut with it's structure)
Roy uses great repetition to convey...
Pros: An unusual story told from an unusual perspective with unusually good language. Cons: None.
I'll admit that this book got off to a slow start for me--it took me a few pages to get used to Roy's style and tone. Once I was acclimated, however, I couldn't put this book down. Roy's use of English is unusual and fascinating, and she puts together...
Pros: beautiful! Cons: it isn't exactly an easy read.
I can ramble for a whole hour about how Roy's "God of Small Things" is probably the best, (aesthetically speaking) most intricately calculated work of literature; but i think i would not come even close to justifying this masterpiece. ...
Pros: GREAT WRITING STYLE,INTERESTING PLOT. Cons: DESCRIPTIONS ARE A BIT TOO CHILDISH AT PLACES
if you are interested in contemporary indian literature,you have just found something you will cherish.
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS is about the life in rural kerala in an anglo indian family through the eyes of two little children.what makes the...
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