by Roy Arundhati · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475965758
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«El déu de les coses petites» is the novel by Arundhati Roy published in 1998 by Editorial Empúries in paperback (400 pages, in Catalan).
Three generations of a family from Kerala, in southern India, scatter and return to their homeland. The novel features twins separated for twenty-three years, a mother with furtive love affairs, a Marxist brother educated at Oxford, and grandparents devoted to entomology. Love, death, and loss of innocence run through the saga.
Catalan translation by Josep Julià Ballbé of «The God of Small Things», winner of the Booker Prize in 1997. Part of the Anagrama/Empúries collection (number 2).
For the general public interested in contemporary Indian fiction and award-winning literary novels.
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.
