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Roy’s return to form

ARUNDHATI ROY IS BACK WITH A SECOND NOVEL—20 YEARS AFTER HER FIRST

INDIAN AUTHOR ARUNDHATI Roy attained instant literary fame with her 1997 debut novel, The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize, topped international best­-seller lists and became required reading for high school and college students, cementing its status as a modern classic. Roy has published more than a dozen nonfiction books in the 20 years since but hasn’t produced another

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