Resumo de God Of Small Things

As I write about this book, Iam a wee bit
embarrassed. For one, this classic should have been read earlier, much
earlier. Secondly no reviews or praise can actually do justice to this
masterpiece. Even here the word ?Masterpiece? becomes an
understatement. Arundhati Roy, an author blessed by ?The God of Small
Things?, with an ability to make the cold, bland language of English
sound magical and triumphant, writes an entire book filled with
emotions, feelings neatly and effectively sculpted with the use of
words.Chew on these phrases for now. Chocolate is
stickysweet and meltybrown. Bluegreyblue eyes snap A Wake, A Lert.
Truths lie off the beaten path, lurking in shadow to transform the
reader from tourist to traveller, from voyeur to intrepid explorer.The
book is a journey through time. A journey of a family and those who
make a family. The book is a collage of experiences, with a hint, at
times, of autobiographical wisdom. Every occasion and happening,
described subtly and sublimely albeit effectively with words and
phrases, captivating the situation as life would. The book
does not have a sequence. It merges the past and the present, memories
and reality, weaving them together effortlessly, taking us through the
lives of the people who live them. The book is a journey of
two young people, twins by birth, from a bittersweet childhood to an
adulthood moulded by one bitter incident. Characters, the kind of
people we see, feel and smell everyday fleet in and out of the book and
the lives of the twins. As you read the book, you live the lives of the
people you read about. You experience the chemistry, feel the joys and
the passion, adore the loves, sing the songs, cry the tears, fear the
fears, experience the pain, smell the scents, enjoy the backwaters of
Kerala. You become the characters, a new character with every new line.The
book, in its own understated way, comments and analyses the transition
of the Kerala of the sixties to the Kerala of today. The patriarchal
families, third world communism, caste barriers, satellite television,
nothing escapes the writers eye. What sets the book apart for
other recent Indian fiction is that unlike its contemporaries, all the
richness of the tale with all its verbal jugglery comes in a neat,
compact and small book. On the last page you are still a part of the
story. You still want to turn another page. You till want to read more.
Feel more. This is a book that probably formed and wrote itself. The
author, I felt, just held the pen.

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