The God of Small Things
by:
Arundhati Roy (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780736641623 (0736641629)
Publish date: June 1st 1998
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Fiction
DNF @ 20%. This book and I didn't get off to a great start, and I admit that some of this was due to my own preconceptions. But, I gave it a try. It just didn't work. When at 16% I still felt like it just was not getting any better. The writing style was just aggravating me. I should have...
I wasn't sure what to expect other than everyone raves about this author and I had to sit with it all a while to decide what I really felt about it. It's a powerful book and a little hard to read sometimes but also strangely beautiful. Trigger: death of a child. It's right in the first chapter that ...
WTF! WTH! One word: BORING!
Enjoyed it all over again. Very sad, beautifully written.
Immersive. Like the Meenachal river that connects the Heart of Darkness to the Ayemenem house. Claiming lives, breaking bodies, silent, quiet and deadly. Unfathomable depths fractured through the eyes of children scarred forever. A narrative to match. And still, stark beauty.