She spent her childhood in Ayamenem in Kerala, and went to school in Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by The Lawrence School, Lovedale in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. Like her twin protagonists, she was raised near her grandmother's pickle factory in Kerala, India. The God of Small Things is her first novel. Education-School of Planning and Architecture, New DelhiĪrundhati Roy was trained as an architect and is also an award-winning screenwriter.
Rahel and Estha learn too soon that love and life can be lost in a millisecond. With mesmerizing language that brings to mind such authors as Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez, and William Faulkner, The God Of Small Things ambitiously tackles such profound issues as family, race, and class, the dictates of history, and the laws of love. Tremendously powerful and lushly romantic, The God Of Small Things effectively shifts between two time periods: Rahel's present-day trip home to see her mute, haunted twin brother, and a December day 20 years before - the tumultuous day that tears the family apart. Tragedy strikes in the form of an accident (that may not have been accidental) and a terrifying murder. When Chacko's ex-wife, Margaret, and lovely daughter, Sophie, unexpectedly return, the household is thrown into disarray. Rahel and Estha are cared for by a host of compelling characters: their beautiful mother, Ammu, who has left a violent husband their Marxist uncle, Chacko, still pining for his English wife and daughter who left him their prickly grandaunt, Baby Kochamma, pickling in her virginity and the volatile Veluth, a member of the Untouchable caste. Set in Kerala, India, in 1969, The God Of Small Things is the story of seven-year-old twins Rahel and Estha, born of a wealthy family and literally joined at the soul.
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