Set in Kerala in the 1960s, The God of Small Things is about two children, Estha and Rahel, and the shocking consequences of a pivotal event in their young lives, the accidental death-by-drowning of a visiting English cousin. In magical and poetic language, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a small rural Indian town, the thoughts and feelings of the two small children, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the adults in their world. It is also a poignant lesson in the destructive power of the caste system and moral and political bigotry in general.
About The Author Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Kerala. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Roy is a well known peace activist and she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May, 2004, for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence. She lives in Delhi.
Arundhati Roy received Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel “ The God of Small Things”. She has used unique and expressive language that is easy reading and accessible. The story is about two twins Rahel and her brother Estha. in a small village in India. Their family has a pickle factory that comes into conflict with the communists. They lost their childhood as they are trapped in tragedy in a single day that change their lives forever. The book is well written. This book has all the elements that make it a successful book.
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She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her ... Although child marriage is illegal in India, she was married at the age of twelve, she tells in her book, Moi, Sampat Pal, chef de gang en sari rose (I, Sampat Pal, gang leader in a pink sari), published by Oh! editions in France in October 2008.
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But a beautiful and realistic story too. It was one of my favourite books when I first read it. (4) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997. It is a novel about growing up in the coastal state of ...
The book is pointless otherwise and is hardly anything more than a sentimental monologue, complete with numerous ingredients for popular taste, and certainly not in the class of other Booker winning novels. ... 1997, Booker Prize- The God of Small Things·; 2002, Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award, for her work “about civil societies that are adversely affected by the world's most powerful governments and corporations”·; 2004, Sydney Peace Prize, for her ...
Achievement: Won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for her novel "Fire on the Mountain" and her children's book "The Village by the Sea" (1982), won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Anita Desai is an Indian ... Born: November24,1961. Achievement: Won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel "The God of Small Things"; Awarded Sydney Peace Prize in 2004. ... V.S. Naipaul is a noble laureate who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Though of Indian ...
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Arundhati Roy, the acclaimed Indian novelist and activist, won the Man Booker Prize for her first novel The God of Small Things in 1997 . In The God of Sma...
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