Book Club Event: "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

For our July meeting, we will be discussing the book "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, the author of [The Ministry of Utmost Happiness].

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An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969.
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama.

The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.

Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, the book is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.

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• BOOKER PRIZE WINNER in 1997
• NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Dazzling . . . as subtle as it is powerful.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA Today

“The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.”—John Updike, The New Yorker

“Outstanding. A glowing first novel.”—Newsweek

“Splendid and stunning.”—The Washington Post Book World
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The discussion will be at The Providore(Downtown Gallery) on Sunday, July 7 @2:00PM.

After the discussion, we will choose the next book by group poll. Please bring at least one book suggestion for what to read next together!

Feel free to send me a message if you have any questions.

See you soon, bookflies🦋!

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Providore - (Downtown Gallery), 6A Shenton Way, Singapore, Singapore