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Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (Hardcover, 2008, Random House Trade Paperbacks) 4 stars

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal …

A vivid slow motion drama

4 stars

This book had been on my lists for ages, before I even knew who was Arundhati Roy, and I was surprised that it took me a while to like it. There was something holding me back a little. It's a slow drama, like a train crash in slow motion, often foreshadowed through the labyrinthine construction between the present and different times in the past. Eventually, it started to make sense and the incredible writing gripped me.