Rush to costar with Meryll Streep in new film depicting the

trials and tribulations of one man's attempt to travel and procure essential medicines for his posterity. Film to be called "Out of Aphrodisiac". Story at 11.

ON EDIT: Mod, please move this to the lounge.... my bad.

Just out of curiosity, that is to say.

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http://www.salon.com/sept97/00roy.html

winds, rivers & rain

THE AUTHOR OF "THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS"
TALKS ABOUT INDIA, THE OBSCENITY CHARGE SHE FACES
AND HOW WRITING IS LIKE ARCHITECTURE.

The daughter of a Syrian Christian mother, a divorcee who managed a tea plantation (just like the character of Ammu in Roy's novel), Roy didn't attend school until she was 10. "I was my mother's guinea pig," she explains. "She started her own school, and I was her first student." As a teenager, Roy went on to attend boarding school in southern India and wound up at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture. And now, after years of supporting herself as an aerobics instructor in New Delhi, she's one of the world's most celebrated novelists. We forgive her for not rewriting or revising "The God of Small Things." Thank God she didn't. Where would the world be without such a display of raw gifts for simile and metaphor, rhythm and lyric? Without Roy's dizzying microcosm of modern India? Without such an honest and wildly creative (her word plays would drive William Safire and any self-respecting dictionary reader mad) expression of human yearning and joy? Let's not think about a world without "The God of Small Things." Let's ask Roy about the world with it.

Next page: There is no India.





http://www.india50.com/arundhatI.html


Arundhati Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Things, acclaimed as a masterpiece and rapidly becoming an Indian bestseller, is an international literary sensation. Last year, Roy, was paid a total of 5,00,000 pounds in advances by 18 publishers worldwide. Brought up in Kerala, Roy, 37, trained as an architect in New Delhi, where she still lives with her film-maker husband, Pradeep Kishen. She wrote screenplays for television and film, her most successful feature film being Electric Moon, before locking herself away to write The God of Small Things. Drawn from experiences in Roy’s life, it tells the tragic story of a Syrian Christian family from Aymenem, in Kerala, riven by internal jealousies and divided by social prejudices. Its unique structure and lyrical prose makes for an brilliant debut.