The next big reading assignment for our class is Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. Roy won the prestigious Booker prize for this, her first and only novel (although she also has many books of non-fiction political critique) in 1997. A good source of information is this Salon interview, published shortly after the novel won the Booker.
The book is set in Kerala, in southwest India, and as you will soon see, it uses a particular style of writing that includes many visual details and descriptions. Here is a little map of where the novel takes place:
