The God Of Small Things
(Arundhati Roy)
This book by the author Arundhati Roy won her the Booker Prize and rightly so. The language used in the book beautifully describes the contained mindset of the people in a small village in the state of Kerala, which is known as "Gods own country" in India. This is a place where its inhabitants have been conditioned over generations together to follow certain concepts of "right" and "wrong", people whose world is either black or white, shades do not exist. Their society has layed down rules that everyone has to obey blindly, unquestioningly. "Amu" as she is described in the book dares to break these rules, the ghastly effects of which are borne by "Estha" and "Rahel" her children who are monozygotic or one egg twins, who can read each others thoughts each one living the other's experience, the closeness of mind thus described. Amu falls in love with a low caste man "Velutha", who is shunned by the so-called high caste Brahimins. In the book he is describes as the God of small things, little deeds done by him bring immense joy to the lives of Estha and Rahel and their mother Amu. He gives so much of himself to Amu's family, he is their man friday doing all that needs to be done around the house, looking after the children, fixing things and in Amu's case giving her a kind of happiness that her marriage never gave her, even while it lasted. The figures of speech used touch the mind while conveying the extremely vehement feelings of the author's characters in the book. There is one where Amu looks back on her failed marriage and regards the photographs where she is so decorated in the bridal attire and wonders about the futility of the excercise, " Like polishing Firewood" is the phrase used to describe it. The fate that Velutha suffers because he dares to love a high caste divorcee is so alarming and is witnessed by the twins, the effects etched on their psyche in a manner that never allows them to live normally again. A wonderful book, very intense its one of the best books i have ever read. Bol shri sachidanand sadguru sainath maharaj ki jai Abstract by Sona Damania
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