by Arundhati Roy · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788496200739
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«O Deus das pequenas coisas» is Arundhati Roy's novel published by BIS in hardcover (349 pages).
The novel follows three generations of a family from Kerala that disperses across the world and returns to its homeland. It highlights the twins Estha and Rahel, born in 1962; their mother Ammu and her relationship with Velutha, an untouchable; and other relatives marked by violence and loss. A family saga with touches of magical realism in a turbulent India.
Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, it was originally published as «The God of Small Things». This edition belongs to the Mil Folhas collection.
Intended for readers of literary fiction interested in family sagas, contemporary India and magical realism.
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.
