Paper Details

Name: Baljeet Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 47-49

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist who shot into fame after winning the 1998 Booker prize for fiction for her novel, The God of Small Things. Early in her career, Roy worked for televisions and movies. She wrote the screenplay for In which Annie gives it those ones (1989) and Electric Moon (1992). The publication of The God of Small Things catapulted Roy to instant inter-national fame. The book keeps all the promises that it makes. The book is the description of how the small things in life affect people‟s behaviour and their lives.
The God of Small Things is probably, more than anything else, a novel about family. It explores the relationships between brother and sister, mother and child, grandparents and grandchildren and so on. It is set in a village of Ayemenem in Kottajam district of Kerala .The story deals with various themes like untouchability, gender discrimination, cast system, and incestuous relation.