by Arundhati Roy · Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442724680
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«Der Gott der kleinen Dinge» is the novel by Arundhati Roy, published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH in paperback (379 pages, in German).
The novel is set in Kerala (India) in 1969 and tells the story of a family that falls apart because of a forbidden love and strict social norms. Arundhati Roy combines evocative, poetic prose with a keen eye for the small details of everyday life.
It is Arundhati Roy's first novel and was originally published in English under the title 'The God of Small Things'.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in family stories set in India and in social and personal conflicts.
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
