by Arundhati Roy · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969060
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«El déu de les coses petites» is the novel by Arundhati Roy, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (448 pages, in Catalan).
The novel, set in Kerala, follows twins Estha and Rahel: a tragic summer at the family home marks their childhood and the lives of three generations. Through time shifts, Ammu's forbidden loves, the memory of Sophie Moll, and the tensions of a society marked by social injustice and class differences emerge.
Translation by Josep Julià Ballbé of the original «The God of Small Things». Belongs to the Butxaca collection (No. 110). The original novel won the Booker Prize in 1997.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative with social and historical background; also a common choice for reading groups.
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.
