| There is so much thought provoking writing within the covers of this book regarding the events, the history, the Indian culture and language, the characters, places, themes and feelings, not to mention the confusing given names and surnames (you truly have to keep a scorecard, but luckily Kindle does this for you..just click and hold on a name and it gives you the background). The main reason I gave The God of Small Things 4 stars was the author's use of language, an abundance of engaging, endearing, funny, wonderful, beautiful, allegorical, lyrical language. I highlighted a lot of examples and made them public in Goodreads. Here are just a few examples: "A cock crowed in the distance and its voice separated into two. Like a sole peeling off an old shoe." "When Margaret Kochamma saw her little daughter’s body, shock swelled in her like phantom applause in an empty auditorium." "And a greenwavy, thickwatery, lumpy, seaweedy, floaty, bottomless bot-tomful feeling." Would that I could write sentences like those! It is no wonder that Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Man Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. I went to a reading of Roy's new book, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”, a book that people have been waiting twenty years for. I look forward to reading it. |
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