The God of Small Things
Winner of the Booker Prize
$20.00
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 October 1998
Summary
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, thei…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780006550686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0006550681 |
| Author: | Arundhati Roy |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 1998 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Flamingo |
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‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic… The God of Small Things achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece.’ Observer ‘The God of Small Things genuinely is a masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way, and there can be little doubt that posterity will place it very near the top of any shortlist of Indian novels published this century.’ William Dalyrmple, Harpers and Queen. ‘The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary - at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple - that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finish … it evokes in the reader a feeling of gratitude and wonderment.’ New York Times
About The Author
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.
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