I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was…

Arundhati Roy
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I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that. ✨ Arundhati Roy returns to fiction by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2007.
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