The God of Small Things
An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Mother Mary Comes to Me. 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.
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In 1969, an affluent Indian family faces a turning point that will forever alter their lives. The arrival of a beautiful young cousin brings both joy and tragedy, setting off a chain of events filled with forbidden love and haunting consequences.
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Arundhati Roy
“[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 Today”
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