The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

Published 1997 by Random House

Category: Biography

Pages: 340 pages

ISBN: 9780679457312

Description:
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati RoyÕs 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 Òbig things [that] lurk unsaidÓ 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.