The God of Small Things: A Novel
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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. Read more
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Specifications
| Genre | Fiction |
| Illustrated | No |
Product Details
| 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 | 5.15 x 0.75 x 8 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,599 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Indian Literature #7 in Australia & Oceania Literature #82 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (18,714) |
