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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 World
Arundhati Roy wowed critics with her writing debut, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published several collections of essays The Cost of Living, Power Politics and most recently War Talk. Ms. Roy is an outspoken critic of India's nuclear weapons testing, controversial environmental issues and the US war on terrorism. Howard Zinn is the author of the best-selling People's History Of The United States (over a million copies sold), and numerous other works of history, politics, and biography.
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ISBN 13 9780679457312
ISBN 10 0679457313
Title The God of Small Things
Author Arundhati Roy
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Random House (NY)
Year published 1997-04-22
Number of pages 321
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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