Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy’s new novel returns to the lush, politically complicated landscape of Kerala — but the questions it asks have evolved in the decades since The God of Small Things. A woman navigating the demands of family, politics, and the particular pressures of public life in contemporary India; a man caught between inheritance and choice; a world that is changing faster than any of its inhabitants can accommodate. Roy brings to this fiction the same quality of attention she brought to her debut: the sense that she is watching everything simultaneously, and that nothing is too small to be important.

The long-awaited return to fiction from one of the most important writers in contemporary literature — a novel of passion, precision, and the complete confidence of a writer who knows exactly what she wants to do and how to do it.

Essential for anyone who loves contemporary Indian fiction — and for anyone who has been waiting, since The God of Small Things, to see where Roy would go next. Published by Hamish Hamilton.