1. Arundhati Roy -The God of Small Things
... dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of India. Fate thought differently. When she brought the manuscript to an Indian editor he immediately loved the book and saw ... stuck at the railroad crossing with the twins inside and this Marxist procession raging around it." The rest of the story did not just accidentally fall into place however. "..so much of fiction is a way of seeing, of making sense of the world ..and you need a key of how to begin to ... to ...
- Word Count: 2800
- Approx Pages: 11
- Grade Level: High School