WHEN Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God Of Small Things came out in 1997, it took the literary world by storm. It received stellar views in major American newspapers such as The New York Times which called it “a dazzling first novel”. The Booker prize-winning author said back then: “It’s taken me four years to write and it’s still not very good. In an interview back in 2011, she said: “I’ll have to find a language to tell the story I want to tell. Putting down the book at the end required an hour’s rerun of Friends and copious amount of chocolate to recuperate.

Source: New Strait Times July 15, 2017 07:07 UTC