This novel presents a thick and intimate nature and the social cultural background of Kerala. But at the same time, this novel plunges a sharp humanitarian suit against the values held by the people of Kerala. This novel shows that communism and religion which teach human equality apparently did not change the discriminatory and patriarchal system of human differentiation, which for centu…
The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a family which 'tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how." -- Christina Patterson, Observer