THE GOD OF THE SMALL THINGS

More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, i s the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, h eart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism.