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THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, 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
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