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The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, Good Book

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Author: Arundhati RoyFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Random House of Canada LtdISBN-10: 0679309411
ISBN-13: 9780679309413Subject: --
Publication Year: 1998Topic: --
Special Attributes: --Language: English
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A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.

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Length:336 pages

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"Unfortunately, Roy has dressed much of her book in an ambitious gorgeousness that she often lacks the dexterity to manage. She inflates story into epic, the modest magic of perception into an occasional clumsy piece of magic realism, and the erotic current between pickle princess and carpenter into an avalanche, resembling a Hollywood musical crescendo."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Richard Eder (06/01/1997)

"Although 'The God of Small Things' opens with memories of a family grieving around a drowned child's coffin, there are plenty of other intimate horrors still to come....Yet the quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinary--at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple--that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finish."
New York Times Book Review - Alice Truax (05/25/1997)

"[S]ome of Roy's finest touches spring from her skill at registering the unsayable terrors lodged below the surface of everyday things, in particular, the terrors which take hold of the children....'The God of Small Things' is a cleverly crafted, often witty and moving first novel by a talented new writer."
Times Literary Supplement - Shirley Chew (05/03/1997)

"If Ms. Roy is sometimes overzealous in foreshadowing her characters' fate, resorting on occasion to darkly portentous clues, she proves remarkably adept at infusing her story with the inexorable momentum of tragedy....As rendered in this remarkable novel, the 'relative smallness' of her characters' misfortunes remains both heartbreaking and indelible."
Kakutani 

"Like a devotionally built temple, 'The God of Small Things' builds a massive interlocking structure of fine, intensely felt details."
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"If the ending, when it comes, is slightly too predictable, it doesn't matter, because, like everything else in this remarkable meditation on storytelling and thwarted desire, it's carefully set up and beautifully rendered."
Todd 

"A rarity in post-colonial fiction: a largely-conceived and ambitious book about private life."
Gorra 

"Roy, an architect and screenwriter who grew up in Kerala, capably shoulders the burdens of caste and tradition, a double weight that crushes some of her characters and warps others, but leaves none untouched....Roy takes up classic material, but she delights in verbal innovation and stylistic tricks. She runs words together...and plucks nouns from verbs and verbs from thin air....Roy's verbal exuberance is all her own, and it makes "The God of Small Things" a real pleasure. History's lessons may be bitter, but Roy serves them up fresh, pungent and delicious."
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The God of Small Things

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679309411
Title : The God of Small Things
EAN : 9780679309413
Authors : Arundhati Roy
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Random House of Canada, Limited
Publication Date : 1998-01-01
Pages : 336
Height : 1.1000 inches
Width : 5.2000 inches
Length : 7.8000 inches
Weight : 0.7500 pounds
Keywords : Roy, Arundhati, General, General AAS, Contemporary, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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