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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Reader's Guide

by Julie Mullaney · 2002

Continuum Contemporaries series

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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of this
Subject
literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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