ChristianMiddle Class TransgressionRules/lawsFeudal society (India) = cast boundRiver: Ayemenem House: Little river left House in decay + Paradise Pickles and preservers (food cultura)

- Food - Products - Organization

She is not commited to fiction At the time GOST was published, the things that began to occur in India right wing, nuclear tests, fundamentalism She writes a book that needs/wants to be written She watched the performances of the Kathakali story she knows and indians know = challenge of the oevure Non linear story challenging. Pessimism and optimism are present in her books it is important to find happy in the saddest place tragedy in GOSTLove creates vulnerability + pain love is a risk, can also heal Today in India, Dehli, people are being murdered, linched by parents if married outside the community repression.Every sentence has a purposeIncest a sharing of unimaginalble sense of loss and isolation and grief try to heal wounds there are more shocking stuff in the world. Velutha political carácter not happy = accused of Naxalite (MOVEMENT AT THE TIME)CONNECTING THE SMALLEST THING TO THE BIGGEST Human race is in trouble because we dont have the ability to see very far into the future shorter visión = earth destruction

She grew up in Kerala (childhood + connection with river she played there) hard to miss overgrowth and fruits, nature takes over

Use of english language interesting phenomenoom in India = language of power + unifying language. Many people exist in many lamguage universes (lingua franca multilingual countryMother feed babies with pickles

Grew up in a place where she had to explain herself to the world Her Indian references were her own and her Word choice

When she arted writing the book not sure what she was doing ( intial image: twins in Plymouth cars + pickle sign at level crossing)

She identifies with all the characters grew up in Ayemenen, her grandmother had a pickle factory and she grew uo sticking labels in bottles, etc. It is hard for her to distinguish between

fiction and reality. Estha and Rahel remembering the fight of her parents = occurred to her in her childhood (she didnt’t remember consciously)

Illicit sexuality = shockig for India audiencePedophilia shockig for India audienceUnrequited love

She doesnt write for anybody in particular family was a place of danger, that offered no protection for her (present in book) left home early Complex realtionship with mother, they reconcile but their’s still tensión

Mom represents all kind of danger and excitement she sees her as somebdoy that has lived her life fearless

Location: wrote in Dehli