The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[antiprefix]

If you want to know the truth, this is the best novel I have ever read. One of the unique things I like about her prose style is the capitalization of phrases and the combination of entire phrases or dependent clauses. She does it at the perfect time, too, and I think it's a technique she borrows from her native written language. I recommend this book to everyone; the setting is a colonialist India, and it is a very political book. But if you ask me, the book teaches you about how to live, how to understand your existence through a magical lens. What do you guys think?


(For writing the novel, she was taken to court for corrupting public morality)

[StreetStyleCat]

I also liked it a lot, Roy really does have a fascinating style of storytelling. The storylines told by children and the same people as grown ups are very well diffrentiated.
But for example my friend didn't like it. She said she couldn't go through these long and (too) rich descriptions.

[WildWildEast]

Yes I've read that recently and it's one of the best books. However, the flashbacks were a bot confusing at a times.

[Astromaxis]

I half-read the book though I want to definitely finish it (this is not the book's fault but rather my own tedious habit of procrastination). I am Bangali so I have semblances to the Indian culture and I think it is a very good way of describing the little details that transfix our minds. Roy is a favourite of mine because she is not afraid to say what she wants to say: We can see this also in her non-fiction as clearly we see our fingers ^_^

Basically love her writing ^_^

[Scheherazade]

The Book Club discussed this book in 2008. If anyone is interested in reading/contributing, here is the link:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39278