Novel
Winner
1997
Short Review:
Arundhati Roy’s debut
novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts
powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is
the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in
1969.
The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken
irrevokably 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.
Author:
Suzanna
Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is
an Indian author who is best known for her novel The God of Small Things
(1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became
the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a
political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
Arundhati
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea
plantation manager from Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's
rights activist from Kerala.When she was two, her parents divorced and she
returned with her mother and brother to Kerala. For a time, the family lived
with Roy's maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. When she was 5, the family
moved back to Kerala, where her mother started a school.
Roy
attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School,
Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. She then studied architecture at the School
of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where she met architect Gerard da Cunha.
The two lived together in Delhi, and then Goa, before they broke up.
Product Details
- Paperback: 333 pages
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (December 16, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812979656
- ISBN-13: 978-0812979657
- Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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