Rushdie's children.

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  • Author(s): Kumar, Amitava
  • Source:
    Nation. 9/29/1997, Vol. 265 Issue 9, p36-39. 4p.
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    • Abstract:
      This article discusses the books "The God of Small Things," by Arundhati Roy, and "The Calcutta Chromosome," by Amitav Ghosh. Arundhati Roy's moving first novel, "The God of Small Things," has created a publishing sensation not only in the West but also in India-where, of course, some gods fare far better than others. But, this is not a novel about those gods that dwell in temples or mosques. The violence at the heart of the novel has nothing to do with, for instance, the demolition in 1992 of a mosque by right-wing Hindu zealots in the Indian town of Ayodhya. The subalterns in Amitav Ghosh's latest novels are even more mysterious, represented by shadowy, occult figures in Calcutta and New York City of the near future.