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The Cost of Living, by Arundhati Roy (Modern Library, 126 pp., $11.95)

Americans know Arundhati Roy as the attractive young author of The God of Small Things (1997), an elegantly written first novel about a pair of twins growing up in a village in southern India. As one of a cadre of Indian writers that includes Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Kiran Desai, and Shashi Tharoor, Roy has earned fame in the West by writing about an exoticized East. Her book—an instant popular and critical success—received glowing reviews, winning the U.K.’s prestigious Booker prize and becoming an American bestseller.

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The Cost of Living, by Arundhati Roy (Modern Library, 126 pp., $11.95)

Americans know Arundhati Roy as the attractive young author of The God of Small Things (1997), an elegantly written first novel about a pair of twins growing up in a village in southern India. As one of a cadre of Indian writers that includes Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Kiran Desai, and Shashi Tharoor, Roy has earned fame in the West by writing about an exoticized East. Her book—an instant popular and critical success—received glowing reviews, winning the U.K.’s prestigious Booker prize and becoming an American bestseller.