![]() ![]() It is a simple story set against the backdrop of social discrimination, communism and the caste system revolving around the lives of the twins Rahel and Esthappen (Estha), the children of Ammu Ipe who grew up in 1960s in Ayemenem in a Keralite Syrian Christian family. Her powerful message about family, class and caste led to comparisons with William Faulkner, her acute observation of society told with understated emotion reminded readers of Charles Dickens, and her inexplicably poetical and magical words of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ‘The God of Small Things’ is about the Big Things of LifeĪrundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, the winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 is a modern-day classic. Booker Prize (1997), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1999) ![]()
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