The God of Small Things
New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Item #5378
ISBN: 9780679457213
A First Edition, First US Printing (so stated), inscribed by Arundhati Roy in blue ink on the title page. Book in Fine condition with clean exterior and interior, sharp edges and bound in green quarter cloth with gray boards. Original and complete dust jacket has a closed 1/2 inch tear to the front, lower right corner, else Fine. Now in a removable protective cover. In collector's condition.
Arundhati Roy's debut, semi-autobiographical novel received a unanimous vote for the Booker Prize in 1997. She was charged with corrupting public morality upon the novel's release. Roy has referred to her novel as "an ancient story" that's been retold in different ways about childhood, motherhood, intimacy and transgression. The novel was published the same year that India reached its 50 years of independence from Great Britain. Roy joined Salman Rushdie on Charlie Rose in 1997 where they discussed the complications of caste and class systems, where Rushdie referred to India as a "gift" to the writer.
Roy's memoir, "Mother Mary Comes To Me," was released in 2025.
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