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An edition of The God of Small Things (1997)

The God of Small Things

2008 Random House Trade Paperback Edition (7)

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (60 ratings) ·
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  • 78 Currently reading
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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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Pages
333

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Subjects

Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, dalit, Catholicism, fraternal twins, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1997, Fiction, Romance, Twins, Gemelos, Twins in fiction, Literatura de expressão inglesa, Romans, Downing, Cousins, Romans, nouvelles, Man Booker Prize Winner, Classes sociales, India in fiction, Literatura indiana, Social classes, Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise, Jumeaux, Family, Social classes in fiction, Ficción, Clases sociales, open_syllabus_project, Literatura de expressäao inglesa, Medicine in Literature, Large type books, French language, Littérature de l'Inde (anglaise), Roman de l'Inde (anglais), Literatura india (Inglés), India, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Twins, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, English literature, Fiction, general

People

Esthappen, Rahel, Ammu Ipe, Mammachi, Handel, Chacko, Navomi Ipe, Pappachi, Margaret, Father Mulligan, Sophie, Velutha, Estha, collectionID:ConroeChallenge

Places

India, Inde, Kerala, Ayemenem, Calcutta, England, America

Times

20e siècle, 1969, 1993

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De god van kleine dingen
2004, Pockethuis
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El dios de las pequeñas cosas
2001, Salvat Anagrama
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Gott der kleinen Dinge
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Bóg rzeczy małych
1997, Zysk i S-ka Wydawn.
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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2008

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Format
library binding
Pagination
xiv, 333p.
Number of pages
333

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL28132170M
Internet Archive
godofsmallthings0000roya
ISBN 10
1606865617
ISBN 13
9781606865613
OCLC/WorldCat
1149211052
Goodreads
10772370

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OL1052138W

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The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major discrimination that prevails in India. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.

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May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.
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