by Arundhati Roy · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788496863262
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«El déu de les coses petites» is the contemporary novel by Arundhati Roy, published by labutxaca in paperback format (464 pages, in Catalan).
The story centres on twins growing up in Kerala with their mother Ammu, in a family full of secrets. The death of an English girl and Ammu's forbidden loves mark their lives; over time, the characters separate and meet again in their place of origin, in a chronicle about love, justice and the loss of innocence.
Original title: The God of Small Things. Booker Prize 1997. Translation by Josep Julià Ballbé.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Indian literature, especially those seeking family sagas with social and political background.
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.
