TY - BOOK AU - Roy, Arundhati TI - The God of small things SN - 9780143028574 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2002/// CY - Haryana PB - Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. KW - Social classes KW - Domestic fiction KW - Psychological fiction N2 - Special 20th anniversary edition of a perennial bestseller and one of the most beloved books of all time by Arundhati Roy Winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the book has been translated in over 40 languages and has sold more than 6 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE ‘Richly deserving the rapturous praise it has received on both sides of the Atlantic . . . The God of Small Things achieves genuine tragic resonance. It is indeed a masterpiece’ – Observer Still, to say that it all began when Sophie Mol came to Ayemenem is only one way of looking at it . . . It could be argued that it actually began thousands of years ago. Long before the Marxists came. Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendancy, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut. Before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag. That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much ER -