They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much.  ”Roy peels away the layers of her mysteries with such delicate cunning, such a dazzlingly adroit shuffle of accumulating revelations that to discuss the plot would be to violate it... Like a devotionally built temple. The God of Small Things builds a massive interlocking structure of fine, intensely felt details. A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.” - John Updike, New Yorker.  “It is rare to find a book that so effectively cuts through the clothes of nationality, caste and religion to reveal the bare bones of humanity.  A sensational novel.” – Claire Scobie, Daily Telegraph. (Ote takakansitekstistä)''

Author

Arundhati Roy (born 1961, Assam, India) is an Indian author. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. 

Arundhati Roy, Wikipedia (en)