'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 '"The God of Small Things" genuinely is a masterpiece, utterly exceptional in every way, and there can be little doubt that posterity will place it very near the top of any shortlist of Indian novels published this century.' William Dalyrmple, Harpers and Queen. 'The quality of Ms. Roy's narration is so extraordinary -- at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple -- that the reader remains enthralled all the way through to its agonizing finish!it evokes in the reader a feeling of gratitude and wonderment.' New York Times

<p>&lt;p&gt;Arundhati Roy is an award-winning film-maker and a trained architect. 'The God of Small Things' is her first novel.&lt;/p&gt;</p>