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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • 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 and Mother Mary Comes to Me

“[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.

From the Publisher

New York Times says “dazzling… as subtle as it is powerful”

John Updike says “a novel of real ambition must invent its own language- this one does.”

Newsweek says “Outstanding. A glowing first novel.”

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 16, 2008
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 333 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812979656
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812979657
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.14 x 0.74 x 7.97 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #40 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #72 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #272 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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