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“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst.
Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.”
I finally re-read The God of Small Things this past week. I remember when I first read this novel, years ago, as one of my earliest ventures into Literature (not ...more
What a strange book! I don't know whether I liked it or hated it! Let me explain. I had heard some promising things about this book and its wining the 1997 Booker prize further boosted its credit so I was looking forward to it. The storyline is flawless. It's tragic, suspenseful and although the narrative jumps from time frame to time frame, and some have criticised this, I found it very cleverly done. I enjoyed Arundhati's quite unique style of writing, though at times it did admittedly become
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