THE INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER `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 `Her reality is magical. She has a heightened awareness of the natural world, of smells and sounds, of colour and light. And she renders palpable this world, at once strange and familiar, in prose of sinuous beauty... A small wonder of style and compassion.' JASON COWLEY, The Times