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The God of Small Things is a family drama novel written by Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India.
Apr 1, 1997 · The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing, The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, were published in 2001 and 2005 respectively.
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May 16, 2024 · The God of Small Things, novel written by Arundhati Roy, published in 1997, that vividly and poetically recounts the downfall of a family while exploring issues regarding politics, race, religion, and class. The ambitious work is Roy’s first novel, and it won the Booker Prize.
Dec 16, 2008 · by Arundhati Roy (Author) 4.3 15,635 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
Jan 1, 1997 · Set in Kerala in the 1960s, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a rural Indian town, the thoughts and feelings of the two small children, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the adults in their world.
Dec 16, 2008 · The God of Small Things: A Novel. Arundhati Roy. Random House Publishing Group, Dec 16, 2008 - Fiction - 352 pages. BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An affluent Indian family is...
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“ [The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it.
When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in...
