A banquet for all the senses, said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
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..
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.
The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie.
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.
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - 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.
A banquet for all the senses, said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love
