But when she hears that Estha has been 're-returned', she travels to Ayemenem to be with her long-lost, broken brother. Twenty-three years later, Rahel has moved to America and made a new life. A terrible tragedy occurs, and, drawn into its devastating repercussions, they are forced apart. But when they are just seven, everything changes. As children, they are inseparable: so close, they think of themselves as one person. Set in Kerala in both the present and 1969, it tells the compelling tale of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, whose lives are shattered by the 'Love Laws' that dictate 'who should be loved, and how. It went on to sell over six million copies in 40 languages, and was named as one of the BBC's 100 'Novels That Shaped Our World' in 2019. A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel - plus bonus interview with the authorĪrundhati Roy's debut novel The God of Small Things took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997.
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