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Book Review of The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things
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New York Times Book Review

"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."

John Updike, The New Yorker

"A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.... A Tiger Woodsian debut."

Washington Post Book World

"A splendid and stunning debut."

Newsweek

"Outstanding. A glowing first novel."

USA Today
"Offers such magic, mystery and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It's that hauntingly wonderful."