The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy • 1997
Devastation Rating
family literary fiction injustice love historical
Our Take
Roy arranges time like shattered glass so you are always aware that what is coming has already happened. The love laws — who can be loved and how and how much — destroy Ammu and Velutha slowly, inevitably, with the full weight of caste and custom. Beautiful and violent in exactly equal measure.
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