The God of Small Things
Author: Arundathi Roy
Description: In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.
From Me: This book was a quick read, but I believe I may need to reread it. Roy apparently has a great affinity for verbosity and word-smithing. Not that I do not enjoy a good word-smither, it keeps me guessing about the intentions of the author. As is often the case, however, excessive word-smithing and description leaves me confused about what I just read. Nevertheless Roy has a fascinating writing style and a is quite good at plot twists. The end is not only shocking but saddening.
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