The God of Small Things

It's not a bad book. I like the way that language gets recontextualised via the perspective of children, although I think it gets a little heavyhanded after 300 pages. I like the nonlinear structure: it gives the book a sort of fatalistic quality. Things don't happen; they've always been and always will be. This means that elements of the past and future are constantly insisting upon the present. The prose was a little flowery, but mostly vivid, extremely sensory.