It took Roy more than four years to write The God of Small Things, and as she told Salon in 1997, “I wrote it out of sequence. I didn’t start with the first chapter or end with the last chapter.

The semi-autobiographical novel 'The God of Small Things' is a masterpiece by Arundhati Roy with fanty-sheeny magical realism and hard-hitting gibberish truths of our times. This debut novel ...

It took Roy more than four years to write The God of Small Things, and as she told Salon in 1997, “I wrote it out of sequence. I didn’t start with the first chapter or end with the last chapter.