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A CLASSIC STORY OF LOVE DEFYING SOCIAL DIVISIONS
Distinguished by its masterly narration, this deeply moving story of love and death, madness and hope, joy and a lost childhood is a true masterpiece of lyricism. It is an extraordinary book, for it reaches the deepest layers of the psyche and uncovers the most intimate experiences. Arundhati Roy has shown remarkable courage in breaking through moral and social taboos and in exposing a world of apparent values.
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“'Bóg Rzeczy Małych' is a true masterpiece, a book exceptional in every respect, and there is no doubt that posterity will place it among the most outstanding novels.”
“Harper’s Bazaar”
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“Arundhati Roy’s wonderful novel is chiefly about maimed emotions. It speaks of explosive, intense love in the most fundamental relationships: between mother and son, man and woman, brother and sister. Of a love in which the seeds of madness, illusion, escape, despair and cruel death were present from the very beginning. As Rahel, the narrator of the novel, says: 'One could just as well argue that it really began thousands of years ago... That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were laid down. The laws that lay down who should be loved. And how much.'”
“Outlook”
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“The world created by Roy is magical. She has a gift for portraying a reality woven from smells and sounds, from colour and light. It is a world that is extraordinarily real, at once strange and familiar, described in subtle and beautiful language... A small miracle of style and sensitivity.”
“Times”
Read by Agnieszka Krzysztoń