<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 37864514 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> The God of Small Things (1996) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy . It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how . And how much ." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives . It won the Booker Prize in 1997 . </P> <P> The God of Small Things was Roy's first book and only novel, until the 2017 publication of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, twenty years later . She began writing the manuscript in 1992 and finished four years later in 1996 . It was published the following year . The potential of the story was first recognized by Pankaj Mishra, an editor with HarperCollins, who sent it to three British publishers . Roy received 500,000 Pounds in advance and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries . </P>

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