Search - The God of Small Things

This novel won the Booker Prize for Novel of the Year in England. Set in India, it is a lush and sultry tale of post-colonial pains and the growing pains of children in an affluent Anglo-Indian household, as well as the continuing power of the caste system... and the price paid by two lovers who ignore the division society imposes on them.

Love conquers taboo in ambitious first novel for Arundhati Roy. She won the Booker Prize for this; would that all architects wrote so well.