On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things
(1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the
Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and
culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided
critical opinion.
This guide to Roy's ground-breaking novel offers:
- an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God
of Small Things
- a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the
text from publication to the present
- a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays by
Padmini Mongia, Aijaz Ahmad, Brinda Bose, Anna Clarke, Emilienne
Baneth-Nouailhetas and Alex Tickell on The God of Small Things,
providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the
coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey
section
- cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to
suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for further reading.
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume
is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The
God of Small Things and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but
a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that
surrounds Roy's text.
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