world literature series-The God of Small Things

With the backdrop of Indian Kerala Aimeenem in 1969, it delicately deals with the tragedy of a family that "everything changed in a single day." On the first five or six pages of the past and the present, the birth of Esta and Rachel, two fraternal twins who mentally connect and share each other's memories, funeral of Sophie Mall, an uncle who drowned in an accident, Beluta trapped in a police station, and a mists trying to tell the truth to save him, are revealed like a bird's-eye-view, but rather curious. What happened to these families? What is 'little things' and who or what is 'little things God'.

Through a combination of narratives that traverse the boundaries of 23 years, when the eyes of the "Earth Woman" only blinked for an instant, Arundati Roy reveals the cruelty of the "Law of Love" and practices that prescribe who should be loved, how and how much to be loved, and counter with love to all authoritative orders. One's life, future, love and death are not determined by "big things" such as great order, conventional wisdom and social dignity, but show that "small things" performed by one person and their surroundings are interwoven, "anything can happen to anyone or anything." Through the work, Arundati Roy intensely shows the "little power" of humans who represent the great cause of the oppressed but also affirm and feign each other's existence.

In the work, Arundati Roy intensely portrays the life of women oppressed by the caste system in a way that is a combination of two "little beings" in a man-centered atmosphere. The uncivilized parabans had to step back and erase their footprints, unable to step into the house of the titans or touch what they were touching, and had to cover their mouths with their hands so that they could not catch their polluted breath. There were many restrictions on women, even if they were temporary workers. In a land where only morally correct women were allowed long hair, women received half of their male wages, and because they had no inheritance rights, they were forced to stay where they had no right to be, or to persevere even when they were subjected to violence. Breaking this social atmosphere and conventional wisdom, Beluta, a recognized paraban, is in love with her parents after the divorce. Beluta and the mists instinctively cling to the "small things" that are the only promiseable future, knowing they have nowhere to go, that their fates are fragile, weak.

Like most debuts, "God of Small Things" is a semi-autobiographical novel that projects Arundati Roy's life. Much of the story overlaps with Arundati Roy's life, from setting up characters in the movie to the social and cultural background of the story. "This novel is my world and the way I see the world," Arundati Roy said of the "God of Small Things." The novel is also not about places or customs, but about fields, land and space, and more about human nature than about any particular society."

a plot
The conservative town of Aimemenem in southern India, where communism began to spread but discrimination in the caste system still lingers. The divorced Ammu takes his twin brother Rachel and Esta back to their relatives and lives here. Meanwhile, Sophie Mall, their uncle, came to England and drowned. Their lives are shaken.

Introduction to Writers-Arundati Roy
He was born in 1961 in Silon, Megalaya, India. After living in Kerala, a foreign country, due to her parents' divorce, she moved to Delhi in 1977 and entered an architectural design school. After graduation, while working at the National Institute of Urban Planning, he meets independent film director Pradif Krischen, stars in the movie Mash Saheeb and marries Krischen. He later collaborated with his husband on the films Annie, Electric Moon, and TV series Vargard, and published his film critique "The Great Rape of India."
In 1997, he won the Booker Prize for his first novel "God of Small Things" and quickly rose to become a world-class writer. He began his career as a social activist in 1998 by announcing the "end of imagination." It is voicing many issues in Indian society, including "The Cost of Survival," "The Political Science of Power," "The Story of War," "The Imperial Guides for Ordinary People," "Popular Power in the Empire Age," "Arundati Roy, India and the World We Don't Know," and "Capitalism: Ghost Story." She won the Lanan Foundation's Culture Freedom Award, Sydney Peace Prize and Norman Mailer's Writer Award, and was named the Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."
The God of Small Things" was published in 1997 and has been named the New York Times' "The Book of the Year" by Independent, Sunday Times and Observer. Since its publication, it has been translated and published in more than 40 languages worldwide, becoming a bestseller with more than 6 million copies sold.