by Arundhati Roy · ISBN 9788877469588
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«Il dio delle piccole cose» is the novel by Arundhati Roy published by Ugo Guanda Editore in 1997 (357 pages, in Italian).
Set in Kerala (India) in the late 1960s, it follows twins Estha and Rahel and their mother, who returns home with them after leaving an alcoholic and violent husband. A story of forbidden love clashes with the country's rigid social conventions, and the novel reflects on family, loss, and the consequences of small decisions.
Originally published as «The God of Small Things», this Italian edition is part of the «Narratori della Fenice» series and includes the translation by Chiara Gabutti.
For readers of literary fiction and novels with social and historical background; winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.
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.
