Quite brilliant…One can only strongly recommend this extremely funny and enchanting and pretty much genius piece of debut fiction’ SPECTATOR
‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic…The God of Small Things achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece’ OBSERVER
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE, 1997
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. But when their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives, their world is irrevocably shaken. An illicit liaison and tragedies both accidental and intentional expose things that lurk unsaid, in a country drifting dangerously towards unrest.
Winner of the Booker Prize, The God of Small Things is lush, lyrical and unnerving: a literary sensation and a modern classic.
Quite brilliant…One can only strongly recommend this extremely funny and enchanting and pretty much genius piece of debut fiction’ SPECTATOR
‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic…The God of Small Things achieves a genuine tragic resonance. It is, indeed, a masterpiece’ OBSERVER
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE, 1997
‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. But when their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives, their world is irrevocably shaken. An illicit liaison and tragedies both accidental and intentional expose things that lurk unsaid, in a country drifting dangerously towards unrest.
Winner of the Booker Prize, The God of Small Things is lush, lyrical and unnerving: a literary sensation and a modern classic.
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