The God of Small Things

The debut novel by Arundhati Roy—rightly compared to works by Faulkner and Dickens—is contemporary classics loved and read across the world. A deep family saga, a story of forbidden love, and a piercing political drama—this audiobook tells of a prosperous Indian family whose life changes forever on one fateful day in 1969. The arrival of Sophie, the younger cousin, shakes the world of seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel and leads to accidental—and not accidental—tragic consequences that teach them that everything around can suddenly take on new, ugly forms and even freeze in place forever—while only the river will keep carrying its waters…

Told with delicate lyricism and deeply moving tenderness, the novel “The God of Small Things” became a literary beacon and brought Arundhati Roy, so wonderfully gifted, fame as one of the most talented prose writers of our time.