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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
All of the little details, scattered seemingly at random, wait for the reader to pick them up and arrange them in a story that fits together perfectly. If you don't connect the dots carefully, the novel might show itself as overly pretentious and confusing, but it rewards willful diligence.
The God of Small Things doesn't ask for, but demands attention, and you will be glad to have given it. It's a novel that stands up to History, political and religious affiliations, generational and gender roles, to love, and hate, and sex, even. It spares no victim and no perpetrator. Every archetype is exhausted equally and molded into what it means to be Human.
Human, with a big H, with all our selfishness, dishonesty, bigotry, callousness. And yet, in the cracks between cruelty and indifference, we are led to believe there might be space to squeeze in tenderness, defiant and unforgettable. The cost of breaking the rules of Love Laws might be a lifetime of sadness, but what's the cost of a life spent in denial of yourself?
The God of Small Things doesn't ask for, but demands attention, and you will be glad to have given it. It's a novel that stands up to History, political and religious affiliations, generational and gender roles, to love, and hate, and sex, even. It spares no victim and no perpetrator. Every archetype is exhausted equally and molded into what it means to be Human.
Human, with a big H, with all our selfishness, dishonesty, bigotry, callousness. And yet, in the cracks between cruelty and indifference, we are led to believe there might be space to squeeze in tenderness, defiant and unforgettable. The cost of breaking the rules of Love Laws might be a lifetime of sadness, but what's the cost of a life spent in denial of yourself?