The God of Small Things

The Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller is a novel that has been widely acclaimed. An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 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, both accidental and intentional, exposing the 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 began an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary for its author, one that continues unabated.