If you loved
Books like The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy: what to read next, and why.
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Midnight's Children
A sprawling, playful Indian novel that makes an interesting contrast with this one's tight, sorrowful focus.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Equally affecting novel about lives crushed by rigid social rules, though in plainer prose.
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Beloved
Another poetic novel about trauma that keeps returning to the event at its centre.