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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW ON NOVELS BY ARUNDHATI ROY NOVELSAbstract
Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. A semi-autobiographical novel. Arundhati Roy writes and speaks on environmental, nonviolent, and human rights issues. Her nonfiction books include The Cost of Living, The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy, The Greater Common Good, A Ghost Story, and others.
The God of Small Things follows a Kerala Christian family. Chapters blend past and current. The past and present are linked, influencing surprising and terrible events. The God of Small Things examines boundary-breaking violence. They all endure displacement and even violence. Ammu, Velutha, Chacko, Margaret, Sophie Mol, Rahel, and Estha.
The God of Small Things was Arundhati Roy\'s debut novel. The novel explores fraternal twins\' childhoods utilizing Bildungsroman themes. It explores discrimination, economic disparities, cultural clashes, Indian politics and history, unrequited love, and treachery. The novel has a complex narrative structure. Roy\'s tale conveys Indian consciousness using traditional and cutting-edge methods. Authors utilize narrative style to tell stories. It works on particular language, punctuation, or exaggeration. Roy uses defamiliarization, similes and metaphors, repetition, epigrams and paradoxes, irony, oxymorons, metonymy, synecdoche, puns, saying instead of showing, and flashback storytelling to convey the story. She uses rhythm, alliteration, internal rhyme, assonance, dissonance, etc. Arundhati Roy writes on politics, literary tourism, post-colonial problems, feminist viewpoints, and Indianness.
KEYWORDS : Narrative pattern, God of small things, class relations, oxymoron, metonymy, Indian consciousness