![]() ![]() Overall, a satisfying read that may have had a larger impact on me if I had chosen to read, instead of listen, to the story. Where sexual and caste conflict have wide reaching impact. Buy a discounted Digital Audiobook of The God of Small Things online from Australias leading online. Where cultures and language collide as Western influences permeates the Indian culture. Booktopia has The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. It is a story where children lose their innocence and trust. Roy’s prose is lush and inviting, even when the story takes unpleasant, disturbing and tragic turns, while Roy skillfully maintains a sense of foreboding of something to come. The illicit breaking of the “Love Law” (theme of forbidden love) acts as the centre to the widening rippling rings of the story. At it’s heart, this is a multi-generational family saga virtually overflowing with themes to generate thought and discussion. I probably would have had an easier time following the shifting focus of the story if I had been reading it in print format, but no matter. Roy takes an unusual – but not unheard of – non-sequential approach to the story: she starts the story with its ending in 1997 and, through a complex patchwork of 1969 flashbacks and segues into side stories, leads the reader to the start. ![]() ![]() Roy’s debut novel, while written in luminous prose, was a challenge for me to follow in audio format. ![]()
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