![]() ![]() She was feted as a symbol of an ascending India, paraded along with bomb makers and beauty queens. ![]() It is almost impossible to see Roy clearly through the haze of adulation, condescension, outrage, and celebrity that has enveloped her since the publication of The God of Small Things, a gothic about an illicit intercaste romance in South India. She knew her life would explode-āIād pay a heavy price.ā She knew she was on the cusp of cataclysmic fame, she later said an interview. She was a fish being ripped from the water by a bony emerald hand. On the night she won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy had a strange and frightening dream. ![]()
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