The God of Small Things: A Novel

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn 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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4.1
77 reviews
No Need (No name)
January 29, 2022
If you cannot see the parallel between the murder of the twins' mother's Dalit / Untouchable lover and the murders of black people (America's Untouchables) in the U.S., you either weren't paying attention, or agreed with the outcome. This book touches on many common issues and themes that aren't specific to one country, but resonate simply because we are human. Arundhati Roy writes for the heart while tantalising the brain.
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Kiran Punnilathil
December 13, 2013
No one's off the hook in this tragedy. It deals honestly and unapologetically with life and human complicity. It's made me rethink my own views about life and how we should live it. It's an easy to read book but complicated to understand, I guess a lot depends on your imagination and interpretation.
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Alicia-Pilar Mogollon (Pia)
January 27, 2021
I didn't actually read the ebook so this review is not specifically for that, but I'm sure it's the books are the same I would hope they are anyway. I love this book so much I can't even describe why it just felt so vivid and real and such a beautiful yet tragic love story dealing with the kind of subject we don't like to talk about but really should.
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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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