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A review by baby_goes_apehit
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5.0
This is kind of a personal review.
Although I needed like two or three tries before committing to this book, it fucking slaps.
The book reminded me a lot of Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamsov". It's a book where most of the time not a lot happens, but you get to know a big extended family and their associates. It's a very intense tale of a small scale catastrophe, human intolerance and contradiction, love, of course, labour rights and castes, hopelessness, growing up. What sets it apart from epic Russian storyteller Dostoyevsky though, is that it explores the human condition differently, partly because it focusses on a female and filial perspective, but more importantly, IT'S A POEM. I'm the most stupid reader you'll find, because it just occurred to me on the last pages, but it's a poem, and it is just so beautifully told.
Fuck the cops, fuck oppressive cultures forcing people away from each other, fuck capitalism, fuck the police, man are trash.
Although I needed like two or three tries before committing to this book, it fucking slaps.
The book reminded me a lot of Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamsov". It's a book where most of the time not a lot happens, but you get to know a big extended family and their associates. It's a very intense tale of a small scale catastrophe, human intolerance and contradiction, love, of course, labour rights and castes, hopelessness, growing up. What sets it apart from epic Russian storyteller Dostoyevsky though, is that it explores the human condition differently, partly because it focusses on a female and filial perspective, but more importantly, IT'S A POEM. I'm the most stupid reader you'll find, because it just occurred to me on the last pages, but it's a poem, and it is just so beautifully told.
Fuck the cops, fuck oppressive cultures forcing people away from each other, fuck capitalism, fuck the police, man are trash.