5/8/2023 0 Comments The god of small things 1997![]() Velutha is depicted as a kindly man, ambitious for an ‘Untouchable’ but we never really see inside his head. Of all the adult characters, only Ammu is sympathetically drawn, and even she is selfish in risking her family with forbidden love for an ‘Untouchable’. At other times this wordplay shows a dawning awareness of the grim and heartless world of adults, as when an angry parent’s ‘later’ delivered ‘meaningfully’ becomes LayTer, a horrible, menacing, ‘goose-bumpy’ word. They way they pick up and distort words and phrases from the adults around them can be very funny at times, as when they turn Baby Kochamma’s stern warning to be ‘Ambassador of India’ at the airport into ‘Ambassador E. I loved it, especially the wordplay and the private language of the twins. This book caused a bit of a storm when it won the Booker in 1997. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, won the Booker Prize in 1997. ![]() ![]() ![]() To see my progress with completing the Complete Booker Challenge, see here. An occasional series, cross-posting my reviews from The Complete Booker. ![]()
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