The God of Small Things

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The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major discrimination that prevails in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.

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Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably 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. --back cover

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Other Editions

• The God of Small Things: A NovelPaperbackRandom House Trade Paperbacks2008-01-01
• Der Gott der kleinen DingeHardcoverKarl Blessing Verlag1997-01-01
• Il dio delle piccole coseUgo Guanda editore1997-01-01
• The God of Small ThingsHardcoverRandom House1997-01-01
• Bóg rzeczy małychPaperbackZysk i S-ka Wydawn.1997-01-01
• The god of small thingsFlamingo1997-01-01