In 1969 Kerala, seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel live in a world colored by childhood wonder—and shadowed by secrets adults pretend not to see. When their young cousin Sophie arrives, the family’s fragile balance splinters. One forbidden liaison and one fateful day set off a chain of tragedies that will haunt generations.
Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize–winning debut blends political unrest, family drama, and lyrical storytelling into a tale at once intimate and epic. Compared to Faulkner and Dickens, Roy masterfully unravels how the “small things” left unsaid shape lives as much as the monumental ones.
At once lush and devastating, The God of Small Things asks what survives in the aftermath of loss: memory, love, or the silence that buries them both.
