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...probably no coincidence that some two years after Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things became an international best seller, more novels by young writers with roots in India are showing up on this side of the world. "Editors will grab at what's in the air," says Sybil Steinberg, fiction editor at Publishers Weekly. But the next Arundhati Roy may not materialize soon. She is a rare delight: a gifted writer who looks like the village beauty in a Satyajit Ray film. Nevertheless, what is called Indian-English fiction hasn't had so much attention since Muslim clerics...
2.The God of Small Things, by Arundhati...
Amid all the brouhaha surrounding the explosion of writing in English from the Indian subcontinent--the million-dollar advances won by Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, the 36 languages into which Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things has been translated--it's easy to feel that the all-purpose label of "Anglo-Indian" writing covers a multitude of sins and that too many serious craftsmen are being massed under the Orientalist tent. Abraham Verghese's vision, full of the earnest self-inquiry of a foreigner taking America to his heart, might seem as alien to Romesh Gunesekera...
...Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy's bold debut achieves an intensity that will feel familiar to fans of D.H. Lawrence. The author sometimes seems too clever for her novel's good, but her material triumphs. Three small children, a blue Plymouth and the lushness of southern India merge into a gripping story of passion thwarted by prejudice...
LONDON: The Booker Prize, the laurel wreath offered annually to the most worthy tome written in Britain, Ireland or Commonwealth countries, has gone this year to first-time female novelist Arundhati Roy's ?The God of Small Things...