BOOK REVIEW OF - THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS BY ARUNDHATI ROY
If you crave to find myriad poetic lines among the pages of a novel, then you have landed in the right place, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, by ARUNDHATI ROY, is no less to any poetic perfection, which certainly deserves a booker prize for the immense usage of literature in a nuance and subtle manner. My reason to pick this book was primarily due to the curiosity which I built when I was studying general knowledge and the question appeared asking who was the first Indian to win booker prize. ARUNDHATI ROY has carved out the true crux of the divergent aspects of society which she wanted to present through the plot she has created. Summarised plot( spoiler free): The story revolves around twins Esthappen and Rahel and Ammu (mother of Esthappen and Rahel) and the chronicles which further lead into the plot. Ammu is a divorcee and later falls in love with a lower caste person called Velutha with whome Ammu shared her childhood. The stroy proceeds to find how Ammu's relations ...