by Arundhati Roy · RBA. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447315185
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«El dios de las pequeñas cosas» is the literary novel by Arundhati Roy, published by RBA in hardcover (308 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows three generations of a family in Kerala, southern India, marked by the death of the English girl Sophie Mol and by the adulterous loves of Ammu, mother of the twins Estha and Rahel. Between past and present, the novel interweaves love, death, taboos, injustice and loss of innocence in a context of traditions and political change.
Work originally published as The God of Small Things in 1997; this edition belongs to the Nueva Narrativa collection, with translation by Cecilia Ceriani and Txaro Santoro.
Literary and contemporary fiction, commonly present in reading clubs; suitable for readers of contemporary Indian narrative.
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.
