THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS-BOOK COVER PAGE
ARUNDHATI ROY
ARUNDHATI ROY
ARUNDHATI ROY-WON THE BOOKER PRIZE AWARD
i love reading and i am an avid reader.Many times after reading many subjects/matter it will remain in my mind as a permanant memory.it remains as an oasis in the desert of my thoughts,when i recall them.
One such book i read is "The God Of Small Things". The book won the booker price award.it is written by ARUNDAHATI ROY. So, Here, i love to share more deatils about her with you and you may read this book when you find time..
Arundhati RoySuzanna Arundhati Roy(born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Ayemenem or Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard DaCunha.
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Ayemenem or Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard DaCunha.
Roy first attracted attention when she criticised Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen, based on the life of Phoolan Devi, charging Kapur with exploiting Devi and misrepresenting both her life and its meaning.Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996.
The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Ayemenem or Aymanam. The book received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997.The book reached fourth position on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction. She received half a million pounds as an advance, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries.
The God of Small Things received good reviews, including one from John Updike in The New Yorker. However, Carmen Callil, chair of the Booker judges panel in 1996, called The God of Small Things "an execrable book" and said it should never have reached the shortlist.Roy wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) and Electric Moon (1992) in which she also appeared as a performer, and a television serial The Banyan Tree.
She also wrote the documentary DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy (2002).
In early 2007, Roy announced she would begin work on a second novel.
You can see more review about this book here:-http://www.curledup.com/godsmall.htm
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