The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness RM52. Random House Inc, 23 (321pp) ISBN 978-1-2 With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and keen.Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt). To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman.
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