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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Mother Mary Comes to Me

"[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It's that haunting."--USA Today

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy's modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing "big things [that] lurk unsaid" in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.

Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won her the Booker Prize in 1997. Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Walking with the Comrades are two nonfiction books she has published. Roy was awarded the Lannan Fund Cultural Freedom Prize in 2002.

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ISBN 13 9780812979657
ISBN 10 0812979656
Title The God of Small Things
Author Arundhati Roy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2008-12-16
Number of pages 352
Prizes Winner of Booker Prize 1997
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.