by Arundhati Roy · Blessing · tapa dura · ISBN 9783896671868
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«Der Gott der kleinen Dinge» is the novel by Arundhati Roy, published by Blessing in hardcover (379 pages, in German).
In the Kerala of 1969, twins Estha and Rahel witness the collapse of their affluent family after the arrival of their cousin Sophie. Between family saga, forbidden love and the political and social tension of India, the novel portrays with poetic and fragmentary prose the hidden cracks of a society marked by caste.
German translation by Anette Grube of the original The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Commemorative Sonderausgabe edition for Blessing's fifth anniversary.
For readers of literary fiction, contemporary classics and novels set in India, also suitable for reading clubs.
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
