Arundhati hom chowdhury biography of rory

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things was one of the most remarkable and talked-about fiction débuts of the 1990s.

Garnering enormous interest before publication for its million-dollar advance, and later for winning the Booker Prize, this inventive first novel garnered critical acclaim throughout the world. Like many Indian novelists of the past generation—including Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, and Bharati Mukherjee—Roy addresses the theme of history and the individual; also like them she makes the political personal by framing it through the eyes of bewildered children as well as the wiser eyes of the psychologically bruised adults they become.

The twins at the center of the novel, brother Estha and sister Rahel, are seven in December, 1969, and 31 in May, 1994, when the novel opens.

Alternating between the two time periods, the narrative explores the impact of the tragic drowning of Sophie Mol, a nine-year-old cousin v