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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 47. Chapters: The English Patient, List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction, The Remains of the Day, Midnight's Children, The Ghost Road, The God of Small Things, Life of Pi, The Line of Beauty, Life & Times of Michael K, The Bone People, Sacred Hunger, How Late It Was, How Late, True History of the Kelly Gang, Wolf Hall, The White Tiger, Vernon God Little, Moon Tiger, Possession, Schindler's Ark, The Sea, Staying On, Disgrace, Troubles, The Gathering, In a Free State, The Siege of Krishnapur, To the Ends of the Earth, The Inheritance of Loss, The Finkler Question, The Blind Assassin, Last Orders, Hotel du Lac, The Famished Road, Amsterdam, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Oscar and Lucinda, The Sea, the Sea, Something to Answer For, Heat and Dust, Offshore, Holiday, The Conservationist, The Elected Member, Saville, The Old Devils, G.. Excerpt: The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian author Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who must be loved, and how, and how much." The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behavior and their lives. The book won the Booker Prize in 1997. The God of Small Things is Roy's first book, and as of 2010, is her only novel. Completed in 1996, the book took four years to write. The potential of the story was first recognized by Pankaj Mishra, an editor with HarperCollins, who sent it to three British publishers. Roy received half-a-million pounds 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. The story primarily takes place in a town named Ayemenem or Aymanam now part of...