Arundhati Roy has been described as: charming, humorous, strong-willed, independent, energetic, creative, with a great sense of fun, 1.55m of doe-eyed delicateness, a down-to-earth 'girl next door', a towering intellect with a poetic fluency with words delivered in a soft modulated voice, a dog-lover. She is 40 years old and describes her two favourite pastimes as 'writing and running'.
Her novel, The God of Small Things, has been described as 'remarkable for its quality of innocence and originality'. It is a playful book, full of poetry and wisdom. Arundhati Roy says herself that "it isn't a book about India... It is a book about human nature."
Set in Kerala in the 1960s, The God of Small Things is about two children, the two-egg twins Estha and Rahel, and the shocking consequences of a pivotal event in their young lives, the accidental death-by-drowning of a visiting English cousin. In magical and poetic language, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a small rural Indian town, the thoughts and feelings of the two small children, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the adults in their world. It is also a poignant lesson in the destructive power of the caste system, and moral and political bigotry in general. The novel has become an international best-seller, and in October 1997 won the coveted Booker Prize.
Index
The God of Small Things
Childhood
Life so far
Writing
The Prize
Controversy
After TGOST
Credits
http://www.arundhatiroy.org.uk/ 
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