BOOKS FROM INDIAThe God of Small Things
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Set in India
Female author
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Still, to say that it all began when Sophie Mol came to Ayemenem is only one way of looking at it . . . It could be argued that it actually began thousands of years ago. Long before the Marxists came. Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendancy, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut. Before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag. That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
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(6 months ago) |
22 Mar, 2025
The entire book reads like an introduction to which a coherent story never emerges.
I’ve been told “it’s not a bad book, it’s just that you didn’t understand it” but honestly there’s nothing difficult to understand in this book. Difficult books are To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf or Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce. The God of Small Things is not difficult, it’s just bad.
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