Paper Details

Name: Anmol Nayyar
Country: India

Year: 2018
Volume: Volume-5, Issue-1 & 2 (Combined Issue)
Page Number: 52-57

Arundhati Roy, born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India is one of the most exceptional modern English women writers. She gained massive popularity with her debut novel, The God of Small Things which she started writing in 1992 and completed in 1996. The book won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 1997 making her the first Indian woman writer to win this award.
The story of the novel revolves around the childhood experiences of two fraternal twins, named Esthappen and Rahel, born to a woman named Ammu who belongs to an upper class family. The novel is a well-knit amalgamation of conflicting ideologies of different classes, cultures, genders, races and castes of the society. The writer has fully exploited the devices of wit, rhetoric, humour and satire in the novel through the imagination of the two twins, Rahel and Esthappen: