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About the Book

The God of Small Things

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

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.

The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy

  • Publication Date: December 16, 2008
  • Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0812979656
  • ISBN-13: 9780812979657