The story centers around the wealthy, land-owning, Syrian Christian Ipe family of Ayemenem, a town in Kerala, India.
This is her first book.The events of The God of Small Things are revealed in a fragmentary manner, mostly jumping back and forth between scenes in 19, with backstory scattered throughout. She has worked as a production designer and written the screenplays for two films. “Splendid and stunning.” - The Washington Post Book WorldĪrundhati Roy was trained as an architect. “A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.” -John Updike, The New Yorker Roy’s narration is so extraordinary-at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple-that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.” - The New York Times Book Review “ offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. as subtle as it is powerful.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 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. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.
The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie.
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessĬompared 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.
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