Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India’s vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns.Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India’s vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns.Here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ is an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism.Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, ‘The God of Small Things’ tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family – their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic…“The God of Small Things” achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece.’ Observer‘“The God of Small Things” genuinely is a masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way, and there can be little doubt that posterity will place it very near the top of any shortlist of Indian novels published this century.’ William Dalyrmple, Harpers and Queen.‘The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary – at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple – that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finish…it evokes in the reader a feeling of gratitude and wonderment.’ New York TimesArundhati Roy is an award-winning film-maker and a trained architect. ‘The God of Small Things’ is her first novel.• ‘The God of Small Things’ was winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 and an international No.1 bestseller in hardback.• ‘The God of Small Things’ has been translated into over 27 languages and published in 31 national editions.• ‘The God of Small Things’ has sold over 800,000 copies in hardback and paperback in the UK alone.Competition: Things That Can And Cannot Be Said; Midnight'S Children; The White Tiger; Kerala - Blue Guide Chapter (From Blue Guide India); Nine Lives. Arundhati Roy;Colson Whitehead; Ali Smith; Salman Rushdie; Kamila Shamsie; Zadie Smith; Jon McGregor; Paul Auster; Mohsin Hamid; Amy Tan; Colson Whitehead;
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