1997 The God of Small Things

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition, first printing, of Arundhati Roy's first novel following the story of a twin brother and sister growing up in 1960s India. 

In original publisher's cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Arundhati Roy's debut novel explores themes of misogyny, the caste system and cultural tensions, forbidden love and Indian history and politics. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.

Roy didn't write a second novel until 2017, twenty years later. Her main occupation is political activism for environmental and human rights causes.