Seeing the smile on your loved ones face, being appreciated for the things you did and thought no one came to know or care about, appreciated for your looks or talent, laughing so hard that your stomach hurts, someone helping you pick up the thing that you dropped. Because at the end of the day, isn’t that what we all live for but for those small things. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS itself is totally a different genre! We all should read this book and know about the small things Roy wants to share with us, the small things that matter in our lives. ConvictionĮVERYONE should read The God Of Small Things. Another quality of the book is that it creates a nostalgic feeling for adults about their past childhood. Her characters are portrayed by the time and the area where they live. The character building is realistic and detailed that we are easily in tune with their life and story. In day-to-day life and universal complexities, sufferers are brought together to say that they are the same things. Relationships within a family are expressed in detail, given a deeper meaning in this book. She has described it as if the reader can experience it while reading it. Roy has penned down enormously complex and provocative subjects very beautifully. The God Of Small Things itself is also a controversial bomb, very openly criticizing the caste system, dirty politics, domestic violence, and many such issues. The novel comes under psychological fiction and domestic fiction. To do the small things that matter well and become the God of small things. Every individual to be their God, to decide for themselves irrespective of their caste and gender. This book talks about the freedom of an individual. It reveals itself to the reader and brings something new every time you read it. And there is a lot to read between the lines. You have to sip it like a wine, enjoying it slowly. If you are ready for such a challenge, then Arundhati Roy has created it out there through The God Of Small Things. All I mean is that it is going to touch you positively. It is going to take up a lot of space for your thoughts for some time. This book, the story, is not going to leave you anytime soon. However, I want to warn you that it is a slow poison, positively. And I dare say that winning the Man Booker Prize the very same year was just a cherry on the top. The God Of Small Things got published in the year 1997 it was an instant classic.
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