GOD OF SMALL THINGS

The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twinswhose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives. The book won the Booker Prize in 1997.

The God of Small Things is Roy's first book and, as of 2013, is her only novel. Completed in 1996, the book took four years to write. The potential of the story was first recognised by Pankaj Mishra, an editor with HarperCollins, who sent it to three British publishers. Roy received half-a-millionpounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries.

While generally praised, the book did receive some criticism for its verbosity and controversial subject matter.^[1]

In 2013, Talkhiyan a Pakistani serial aired on Express Entertainment was based on this novel.