The author of The God of Little Things, Arundhati RoyHe conceived this novel after four years of work, although he assured on some other occasion that it had taken him his whole life to write it. Everything becomes a delight not suitable, yes, for all palates.Īs the novel progresses, especially during the last third of the book, all "those little things" become more important, and what began as a contemplation becomes a different experience, a suspense that, like those children, it drags us through the marshes towards a final resolution whose consequences will not be pleasant for all. Each and every one of the characters seem to dance with that narrative power that not only penetrates the characters, but also the environment of a convulsive paradise such as Kerala, whose marshes have been conquered by tourism, where the night is supported by elbows and witnesses furtive loves the black crows that binge on lustrous mangoes. Try Audible 3 months free: thousands of audiobooks availableĪlthough metaphors tend to slow down the rhythm of the story, in this novel they propel it, accompany the treatment of the characters and make it unique, being able to delve even more into their experiences, in that Ammu who lives with a dark man in her guts, in that Pappachi in whose heart a butterfly still flutters.
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