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(1997)
The God of Small Things
A Novel
2008 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (14)
by Arundhati Roy
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Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably 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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Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, dalit, Catholicism, fraternal twins, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1997, Fiction, Romance, Twins, Gemelos, Twins in fiction, Literatura de expressão inglesa, Romans, Downing, Cousins, Romans, nouvelles, Man Booker Prize Winner, Classes sociales, India in fiction, Literatura indiana, Social classes, Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise, Jumeaux, Family, Social classes in fiction, Ficción, Clases sociales, open_syllabus_project, Literatura de expressäao inglesa, Medicine in Literature, Large type books, French language, Littérature de l'Inde (anglaise), Roman de l'Inde (anglais), Literatura india (Inglés), India, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Twins, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, English literature, Fiction, generalPeople
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The God of Small Things
2017, Vintage Canada
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The God of Small Things
2009, Fourth Estate
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The God of Small Things: A Novel
2008, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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De god van kleine dingen
2004, Pockethuis
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The God of Small Things
1999, HarperPerennial, HarperFlamingo
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The God of Small Things
1998, IndiaInk
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The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major discrimination that prevails in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.
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