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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
...(more) 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.(less)
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Ms. Roy is a very unusual writer. What an extraordinary look at cast, politics, love, loss, and culture. I can not say that I love Ms. Roy's writing, but her story is powerful and a must read. My wife however loves her writing. She takes analogy to a new level.