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	QLRS: Peripheral Beings and Loss in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things \| Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The God of Small Things is couched in the consciousness of small things, the intimacy of language, and the minute undercurrents of a situation.
		While “small things” may ironically connote triviality, the novel is ultimately concerned with marginality, absence and loss: in other words, the invisible narratives that are consumed by power, politics, or imperialism.
		She is one of the small things, creatures of marginality and near-invisibility, that constitute the subject of the novel.
	www.qlrs.com /issues/jul2003/essays/gost.html (1442 words)

	The God of Small Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-autobiographical, politically charged novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy.
		The book is a description of how the small things in life build up, translate into people's behaviour and affect their lives.
		The God of Small Things is Roy's first book, and as of 2006, is her only novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things (417 words)

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	Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
		"Observing the day of small things" is a phrase that eighteenth-century friends used to describe their understanding that no behavior or deed was too small to be subject to God's guidance.
		The God of Small Things (the God of loss) presides over all of this, unable or unwilling to stop the suffering, offering no salvation even to the most innocent.
		The god of small things...whether it's the way the children see things or whether it's the insect life in the book, or the fish or the stars - there is a not accepting of what we think of as adult boundaries.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /india/roy/nishant1.html (1608 words)

	THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy
		It is also about life's small people: two tentative children, a boy and a girl, one silent and the other hesitant; a bitter spinster; a battered housewife; a frustrated entomologist; a divorced woman; a tainted communist; a hollow-man WOG (Western-oriented gentleman); a low-caste carpenter.
		The story is set in the small, provincial town of Ayemenem in India, a country where "various kinds of despair compete for primacy" and where small "personal despair" pales before the "wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation."
		And thus it is that the small, domestic, everyday affairs of three generations of the family of the Reverend Ipe -- he who was blessed specially by the patriarch visiting the Syrian Christians of Kerala in 1876 -- become the signposts for a revealing journey into a variety of current Indian concerns.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/09/14/god.html (939 words)

	The God of Small Things
		And small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways.
		Thing One was the newly painted high dome of the yellow church that Rahel hadn't ever looked at from the inside.
		Though his part in the whole thing had by no means been a small one, Comrade Pillai didn't hold himself in any way personally responsible for what had happened.
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	The God of Small Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The God of Small Things is set in the southwestern state of Kerala, a region long characterized by higher levels of literacy, life expectancy, and gender equality than the rest of India.
		These progressive indicators are in no small part the legacy of Kerala's powerful communist movement, and the bulk of Roy's novel takes place in 1969, during the communists' rise to power.
		In December of that year, Estha and Rahel, the twin son and daughter of a wealthy Christian family, are paid a visit by their British cousin Sophie Mol, whose estranged father (the twins' communist uncle Chacko) runs the family pickle factory in their sleepy hometown.
	bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/97/08/21/THE_GOD_OF_SMALL_THINGS.html (770 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The God of Small Things: Books: Arundhati Roy,Diana Quick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry.
		The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.
		Rich in characters and an amazing plot, The God of Small Things takes you into the fascinating setting of India, its politics, rich culture, unique social and caste system, numerous taboos, and its turbulent rich which all have an influence on the characters of the story.
	www.amazon.co.uk /God-Small-Things-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0001054686 (953 words)

	God of Small Things
		A film director discovered her on the street, and she had a small role, but she got a scholarship to go to Italy to study architecture.
		In a fever of nationalistic pride, Roy was savaged for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
		Did you know that a section of "God of Small Things" was published in the anthology "Mirrorwork: 50 years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997" edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West?
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/godofsmallthings.html (1881 words)

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		Although ''The God of Small Things'' opens with memories of a family grieving around a drowned child's coffin, there are plenty of other intimate horrors still to come, and they compete for the reader's sympathy with the furious energy of cats in a sack.
		Unlike most first novels, ''The God of Small Things'' is an anti-Bildungsroman, for Estha and Rahel have never properly grown up.
		Whatever the nature of their crimes, it is almost immediately apparent that they have never recovered from their punishments, and present-day Ayemenem -- with its toxic river fish and its breezes stinking of sewage -- seems to reflect their poisoned and blighted lives.
	www.courses.rochester.edu /kraus/CAS105_2000/NYT_god_of_small_things.htm (1238 words)

	Amazon.com: The God of Small Things: Books: Arundhati Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Big Things lurk unsaid inside." Plangent with a sad wisdom, the children's view is never oversimplified, and the adult characters reveal their frailties?and in one case, a repulsively evil power?in subtle and complex ways.
		I wanted to, but I have to admit that the subject matter seemed pretty standard for an award-winning book: 'The God of Small Things' centers around a tragedy that rends a family apart and its lasting effects on the twins who were at the heart of it.
		The God of Small Things tells the story of a middle class Christian family in India and the events leading up to a tragedy that will change their lives forever.
	www.amazon.com /God-Small-Things-Arundhati-Roy/dp/0060977493 (2507 words)

	Review - The God of Small Things
		Those things are terrible, on the small and human scale of things, but described with beauty and a sensuous brutality.
		The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize last year - the premier prize for fiction in the English language.
		The tyranny of English is an undercurrent running through The God of Small Things.
	www.sfu.ca /~brocking/writing/smallgod2.html (849 words)

	Salon \| Arundhati Roy
		Her first novel, "The God of Small Things," has just won the English-speaking world's most premier honor, the Booker Prize, is published in more than 20 nations, has hit No. 1 on the Sunday Times of London's bestseller list and is climbing the New York Times list.
		So good, in fact, that John Updike, when reviewing "The God of Small Things" for the New Yorker, compares her mind-boggling debut to that of Tiger Woods.
		Now in her mid-30s, Roy grew up in Kerala, the Marxist Indian state in which "The God of Small Things" is set.
	www.salon.com /sept97/00roy.html (428 words)

	GradeSaver: The God of Small Things Essay: Growth, Confusion, and the Loss of Innocence: The Differing Roles of ...
		GradeSaver: The God of Small Things Essay: Growth, Confusion, and the Loss of Innocence: The Differing Roles of Childlike Narration in Roy's The God of Small Things and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
		The lack of insight, limited use of modifiers, and simplistic sentence structure of Benjy's section and the phonetic spelling, whimsical adjectives, and interspersed lines of children's songs of The God of Small Things both serve to present the reader with childlike descriptions of the stories.
		In contrast, the changing use of language and depth of insight of the narrator in The God of Small Things signal to the reader that the narrator has matured as a result of the events of the novel.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/small/essay1.html (2715 words)

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		That morning, the Boston Globe ran a long obituary that gives a glimpse of Paul's life, and the grace we experienced by having him in our lives.
		Every small act of faithfulness can open up space for God in the world, our pastor once said.
		God in the Ordinary Parts of Life This review of...
	god-of-small-things.blogspot.com (1596 words)

	IndiaStar Book Review: Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"
		I must admit that I was also influenced by all the hype surrounding the publication, the six figure advance, the fervid auction and the agent who got on a plane from London and arrived at the author's door.
		The God of Small Things is often very amusing; there is a lovely passage where a child recites Lochinvar with a Malayali intonation and pronunciation.
		For those who know Kerala, it is all very interesting and for those who don't, it is certainly exotic and interesting, but despite all the fine writing, the bottom line is that one is left largely unmoved by the tragedy that unfolds.
	www.indiastar.com /roy.htm (643 words)

	The God of Small Things Summary & Essays - Arundhati Roy
		Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of Small Things rapidly became a world-renowned literary sensation after it was published in New Delhi in 1997.
		Roy stresses throughout the novel that great and small themes are interconnected, and that historical events and seemingly unrelated details have far-reaching consequences throughout a community and country.
		The novel is therefore able to comment simultaneously on universal, abstract themes, and a wide variety of ideas relating to the personal and family history of the members of the Kochamma family as well as the wider concerns of the Kerala region of India.
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=god-small&typeID=25 (333 words)

	God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy - HarperAcademic
		As the three arrive into the arms of Ammu's eccentric and unforgettable relatives, a tragedy begins to unfold that will propel them toward a fate that has perhaps stalked them from their inception.
		Yet, throughout the pain and hardships of things large and small, the humor, humanity, and ferociously perceptive intelligence only bestowed upon seven-year-olds shines gloriously through.
		At the core of this extraordinary, bittersweet story is the unforgettable narrative voice of first-time novelist Arundhati Roy, a uniquely talented writer capable of moving us beyond words with the perfect sentence and a profoundly insightful wisdom that far surpasses her years.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=069451960X (232 words)

	Notes: The God of Small Things
		"The God of Small Things is set in the American southwest, in the decade after the 60s’ civil rights movement, and examines the interracial persecutions and intra-racial problems that occur in a society trying to move into modernity."
		The men have bonded, the baby is taken, the small coffee corner of the store is a little quieter.
		Are the Small Things the little things that are really important in life, the things that get ignored or even killed by what society deems the Big Things?
	www.garretwilson.com /books/godsmallthings.html (815 words)

	"Ice-Candy-Man" and "The God of Small Things": Some Interesting Parallels.
		The story of The God of Small Things to an extent is also told from children's point of view.
		Similarly, Rahel, in The God of Small Things, paints a casual cameo of Ayemenem, a sleepy town on the scenic Kerala coast as she revisits it after 23 years.
		It is a small mercy that the two of them finally find peace and comfort in each other's company.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /india/roy/rao1.html (3293 words)

	The God of small things - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The God of small things - Deccan Herald
		My own growing years coincided with new discoveries in basic science and quantum physics and one felt that God could be understood through the infinitely small or the infinitely large and that one could touch Him through matter and with the senses.
		The feeling that God could be reached by the Astronomer or The Physicist persisted for long.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun292004/middle.asp (715 words)

	The God of Small Things–A Review
		Set in the southern Indian state of Kerala in 1969, The God of Small Things is the story of a 7-year old girl, Rahel and her twin brother Estha.
		Shunned by her family and insulted by authorities, Ammu age 31 dies “at a viable die-able age.” It is true that things can change in a day.
		Arundhati Roy said in an interview: “A lot of the atmosphere in ‘God of Small Things’ is based on my experiences of what it was like to grow up in Kerala.
	www.uwf.edu /lgoel/html/godofsmallthingsareview.htm (509 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy
		Told mainly from the perspective of 7-year-old Rahel and Estha, "two-egg twins," and from that of Rahel 23 years later, Roy's story focuses on two tragic events in 1969-the drowning of the twins' 9-year-old Anglo-English cousin, Sophie Mol, and the murder of Velutha, the Untouchable carpenter beloved by the twins and their divorced mother, Ammu.
		Moving back and forth through time, guiding us through the many-splendored mansion of her tale, Roy ingeniously reveals-chamber by chamber, heartbeat by heartbeat-the details, the "small things" that fill her characters' lives and furnish the dwellings that cannot protect them.
		What-or who-are the Small Things over which this god has dominion, and why do they merit their own god?
	readinggroupguides.com /guides/god_of_small_things.asp (796 words)

	Apostolic Faith Church - God Helps in Small Things
		I can’t say I specifically prayed that God would tell me where the camera was, but suddenly I wasn’t concerned about it any longer.
		God used that incident with the camera to help me understand something about His nature that I had never fully grasped before.
		God is willing to get right down to the basics of our existence.
	www.apostolicfaith.org /foryou/articles/godhelpsinsmallthings.asp (781 words)

	The God of small things - Science - Specials - smh.com.au
		Scientists consider intelligent design - which finds God in the gaps that evolution struggles to explain - as easy to refute as a flat earth, but they differ on how best to counter its growing appeal, writes Deborah Smith.
		A leading advocate of the theory, Professor Michael Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, insists it is a scientific theory that sheds no light on who the intelligent designer is, although he believes it is God, he told a US court last month.
		As a believer in a God of "purpose" rather than a blueprint-wielding designer, Birch is also not drawn to the idea of a deity who is invoked to explain away any scientific mysteries.
	www.smh.com.au /news/science/the-god-of-small-things/2005/11/13/1131816809636.html (1434 words)

	The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
		I’ll raise the money.’ I don’t know anyone else who is as obsessive as I am, he is actually more obsessive about small things and I thought, that this was a chance to have some fun.
		We will be publishing more, but we wanted to wait until this book got read and then we could see whether we are able to deliver a book that is worthy of its physical presence and whether we can sell it well and most importantly, can we keep it in print.
		If all these things happen, then we will feel confident of holding the trust of another author and continue publishing.
	www.india50.com /arundhatI.html (945 words)

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		I was doing a follow up interview with author GP Taylor when he said the most remarkable thing.
		CS Lewis said once that the most holy thing we encounter in this life, outside of the blessed sacrament, is our neighbors.
		We cannot serve a God of love and revel in hate.
	god-of-small-things.blogspot.com /2004/10/gospel-of-our-own-imagination-i-was.html (655 words)

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