Arundhati Roy in general

The deserved 1997 Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things” is a delightful insight in to the Anglo-Indian world of Kerala, and India in general. It is a multifaceted story in which the reader learns how difficult it is to teach an old dog new tricks; a parable which effortlessly relates the sometimes disastrous convergence of old and new, of East and West, of ancient tradition and modern belief. We can all learn something here. The plot centres on an affluent family which is tormented by conflicting beliefs and eventually disintegrates into many parts. We know, in synopsis, the ending at the beginning – but ...