The Critical Studies of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small ThingsJaydipsinh Dodiya, Joya Chakravarty Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 1999 - 153 pages The present Volume, comprising more than fourteen scholarly papers, offers a critical appraisal of Arundhati Roy as a novelist and provides varied perspectives on the major aspects of her debut novel The God of Small Things. The contributors to the Volume comprises an august group of scholars and academics like Jaydipsinh Dodiya, Dr. Joya Chakravarty, Dr. Pramod K. Nayar, Dr. K. Ratna Shiela Mani, Dr. K.V. Surendran, Dr. M. Dasan, Dr. G.D. Barche, Dr. K.K. John, Dr. C. Gopinatha Pillai, Nandini Nayar, Vinita Bhatnagar, Dr. Neelam Tikkha, Anil Kinger, Twinkle B. Manavar, Amar Nath Prasad, Indravadan Purohit and Dushyant Nimavat. The present Volume will be an asset to those who want to read and study Arundhati Roy?s The God of Small Things from various critical angles. Arundhati Roy, the first Indian writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize, is gifted with an extraordinary creative genius. Her debut novel The God of Small Things fulfils the highest demand of the art of fiction. Even on the global level the Volume will be of great significance as The God of Small Things is being translated into a number of languages all over the world. |
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