The God of Small Things: a story of tragedy.

"Perhaps it`s true that things can change in a day. that a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. and that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house- the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture- must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. preserved. accounted for. little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. imbued with new meaning. suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story."- The God of Small Things.


this is a story of small things and how it affects the characters in a rather devastating way. the language of this novel is stunningly beautiful- the writer used a tones that is almost childlike with a child point of view. and the way the story unfolded is so dramatic. reading the story is like finishing a puzzle- it is not systematic, the storyline came back and forth and eventually, the story completed. we already know the fate of the characters when we read the first chapter, we just don`t know how it happen and hence, reading this novel is like a watching a downhill journey of the characters into their doom. the language of this novel certainly hook me up from the beginning- the beautiful prose, the way the writer played with words- was just mesmerizing. it is concise, clear, and catchy.


the characters in this novel are also very interesting. they are alive, radical and interesting- the strange twins, the mother who commit an unthinkable thing, the sly baby grand aunt, and the eccentric uncle. this novel contains the heavy theme of caste system, family conflict, death, and communism. i like the theme of how small things affect the lives of this characters, of what a small thing that happen in the wrong place at a wrong times do to them. they are truly the sufferer of circumstances and fate.

and so, here i present you, The God of Small things. read it and you won`t regret it!



p/s: there are some obscene scenes in this novels, i don`t understand why they always ruin a good novel with such things. hate it! and yet, still, i like the novel very much. sigh.