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The God of Small Things Paperback - 2008

by Arundhati Roy

"A banquet for all the senses," said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.


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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - 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 "[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.

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  • Title The God of Small Things
  • Author Arundhati Roy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Trade, New York
  • Date 2008-12-16
  • ISBN 9780812979657 / 0812979656
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.22 x 0.79 in (20.57 x 13.26 x 2.01 cm)
  • Reading level 840
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“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 hauntingly wonderful.”
–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 World

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 06/28/2015, Page 16

About the author

Arundhati Roy was trained as an architect. She has worked as a production designer and written the screenplays for two films. She lives in New Delhi. This is her first book.
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