Booker Prize winning novel by Roy - also her first book. Roy is a political activist and journalist and has published eight non-fiction works since her debut novel, as well as a further novel The Ministry of Happiness. The God of Small Things is a powerful saga set in Kerala, where Roy was born, that wrestles artfully with caste discrimination, forbidden romance, coming-of-age, and family life.

London: Flamingo, 1997. First UK edition. 340 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Purple cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. Pictoral dust jacket. Fine book and near fine jacket.