“A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does. 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. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).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. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. Listen to The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy available from Rakuten Kobo. It charts the hopes and disillusionments of a family over three generations in Southern India.

Item #BB2424 ISBN: 8186939008 Published in the 50th-anniversary year of Indian independence, this debut novel won the Man Booker Prize, was translated into some 40 languages, and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. 192, where a newspaper clipping was laid in. Tightly bound (apparently unread) in very fine jacket, marred only by faint tape ghosts to end sheets and stain to p. Velutha is a Paravan, a marginalized and ostracised. Publisher's black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, chocolate end papers photographically illustrated dust wrapper by Sanjeev Saith, priced Rs 395. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Velutha is the only character in the book that doesn't seem to have a bad past, unlike others. First Indian Edition (and Indiaink's first publication), preceding all others, of the political activist's first novel.

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