"The God of Small Things"

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This paper reviews the book "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. According to this review, the "magical realism" and the "sound of small things" in the book are created by the perceptions of the characters themselves.

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"The mythical sound of history, although often constructed of child-like phrasing and odd word strings, reverberates from Roy's text to create an ephemeral world that is much less tangible than the hard imagery of other modern novels. Some fasten terms like "magical realism" to her text or blame it on culture, likening her to Indian literary icons such as Salman Rushdie (Reena). Roy herself denies this, saying: No, what I am writing is what the characters are experiencing. What the reader is reading is the character's own perceptions. Those images are driven by the characters. It is never me invoking magic! This is realism, actually, that I am writing (qtd. in Reena)."

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