by Arundhati Roy · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006551096
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«The God of Small Things» is Arundhati Roy's literary fiction novel, published by Flamingo in paperback (350 pages, in English).
Set in Kerala, India, in 1969, it follows twins Estha and Rahel, whose childhood fractures after the arrival of their cousin Sophie and a summer of forbidden love and tragedy. The novel weaves together memory, family secrets, and rigid social hierarchies to show how small things can change lives forever.
Arundhati Roy's first novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 and translated into more than 40 languages.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction, especially those interested in India and family stories with a political backdrop.
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.
