WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness“[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA TodayCompared favorably to the … haunting.”—USA Today
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.
Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.
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Exquisitely crafted. She has made the words feel good as they slide into the reader’s mind.
Very beautifully written.
The Author is a unique Voice for India´s People daily reality. We learn how unfair the world can be, but at the same time full of joy and poetry.
I have traveled to India and love the country, so I loved reading about a family in India. I thoroughly enjoyed the writing.
beautiful to read, interesting parallels of foreign culture to ours
Boring. Too many characters, not enough story line.
overrated
Beautiful writing but a little disjointed for me. Did not finish so can’t really give a good review.
Amazing. Like nothing else I’ve ever read before or afterwards. Years after reading it I still remember it vividly.
Difficult to understand and lots of unusual names making it hard to sort out.
Lyrical and beautiful
Beautiful prose
Literary types will most likely slaver over this artistically written piece, but I prefer a works in which there is a whole lot less convoluted and confusing “telling” and a few more scenes in which people are interacting.
It was hard for me to get interested in the plot or the characters. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get beyond halfway through. I really wanted to like this book, and I will keep it and hopefully go back to it.
I love reading about different cultures. I hated the ending, but the book was interesting.
Amazing writing
Arundhati Roy is worth reading