Bookmarked Musings: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things – The story and the storytelling by Ramlal Agarwal
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In this essay, Dr. Ramlal Agarwal revisits Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and explores the story, along with its storytelling.
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, a debut novel, won the Booker Prize in 1997 and sold millions of copies all over the world. It was an extraordinary achievement for an Indian writer, and the readers of Indian writing in English were caught up in the euphoria and regarded it as a masterpiece, a novel of its own kind.
It is a novel that deals with people who cannot find their way in life. It is a story of three generations of a Syrian Christian family living in a small village in the south called Ayemenem.
