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tptimmons 's review for:
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Loved, loved this novel. I stumbled through the first few chapters, but then grew into the narrative rhythms and stylistic signatures. Roy's narrative pattern was very satisfying--the book almost spiraled itself inward is how I would describe it. One of the best treatments of the point of view of children and the working of a child's mind I've read. As a writer, I learned a lot from Roy in this novel: the compound words, the echoing descriptions, thematic organizing linkages, using the curves of the narrative spiral to generate tension/conflict, and the importance of naming things. I haven't read any Rushdie, and read elsewhere that Roy's novel bears a strong resemblance to Rushdie's postmodern stylistic signatures, even if true (which is unlikely that Roy wrote her novel without prior exposure to what Rushdie was doing), Roy's work stands on its own. I will definitely be rereading this one a couple times!