Which Booker Prize-winning novel by Arundhati Roy was published in 1997?

The Booker Prize-winning novel by Arundhati Roy published in 1997 was The God of Small Things.

Roy’s debut novel follows twins Estha and Rahel in Kerala, India, while exploring caste, family, colonialism and political upheaval. Its nonlinear structure moves between their childhood and the consequences of a devastating family tragedy.

The book was published in 1997 and quickly became an international bestseller. Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction, receiving the award for a first novel that combined lyrical language with sharply observed social criticism.

A common mix-up is with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Roy’s second novel, which appeared in 2017. Midnight’s Children was written by Salman Rushdie, while The Satanic Verses was written by Rushdie as well.