

A first edition copy of the Man Booker Prize winning novel by Arundhati Roy, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Very slight bumps and marks to the boards and the extremities. In original publisher's cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Her main occupation is political activism for environmental and human rights causes. It won the Booker Prize in 1997.Roy didn't write a second novel until 2017, twenty years later. First edition, first printing, of Arundhati Roy's first novel following the story of a twin brother and sister growing up in 1960s India.?In original publisher's cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Arundhati Roy's debut novel explores themes of misogyny, the caste system and cultural tensions, forbidden love and Indian history and politics.

The first edition, first printing of Arundhati Roy's debut family drama novel with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

(Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).Ĭloth. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. It charts the hopes and disillusionments of a family over three generations in Southern India. Published in the 50th-anniversary year of Indian independence, this debut novel won the Man Booker Prize, was translated into some 40 languages, and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. 192, where a newspaper clipping was laid in. Tightly bound (apparently unread) in very fine jacket, marred only by faint tape ghosts to end sheets and stain to p. Publisher's black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, chocolate end papers photographically illustrated dust wrapper by Sanjeev Saith, priced Rs 395. First Indian Edition (and Indiaink's first publication), preceding all others, of the political activist's first novel.
