by Arundhati Roy · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006550686
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«The God of Small Things» is the novel by Arundhati Roy, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (340 pages, in English).
Set in Kerala (India) in 1969, the novel follows twins Rahel and Estha and their family, marked by a broken marriage and a mother who defies norms. The arrival of relatives triggers a series of social and romantic transgressions whose consequences, seen through a child's eyes, prove devastating.
First novel by Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 1999. This edition was published in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in India and family stories.
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.
