The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
1997, 321 pp.
Booker Prize
Rating: 3.5
I finished this book two days ago, and I still don’t know how I feel about it. Loved some of it, hated some of it, and was confused by the ending (particularly the second to last chapter; did they ?). I am reading this with my Book Awards group in September, and I have many things I’d like to talk about and discuss with them first before I write any kind of formal review.
I guess I will write one later. Lay Ter. (If you’ve read this book, you know what this means!)
I just finished this book as well. I loved it. Very poetic in sort of a childish way. But I too was confused by the ending only because it was basically a love scene that seemed soooooo out of tune with the book. Maybe she changed the ending at the last minute? Added the ending? really confused about that one. The love scene just didn’g add up for me.
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