The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - MAN BOKER PRIZE WINER 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. Praise for The God of Small Things Dazzling . . . as subtle as it is powerful.--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 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 The quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinary--at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple--that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.--The New York Times Book Review A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.--John Updike, The New Yorker Outstanding. A glowing first novel.--Newsweek Splendid and stunning.--The Washington Post Book WorldArundhati 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 | 9780735273283 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735273286 |
| Title | The God of Small Things |
| Author | Arundhati Roy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Canada |
| Year published | 2009-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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