Do you perhaps mean this book: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/e-l-doctorow/city-of-god.htm ? if so, it is by E. L. Doctorow.
Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things .
There are several books titled City of God. The best known was by St. Augustine of Hippo in the 5th century AD, but there is also one by Maria de Agreda from the 17th century, a novel by Paulo Lins from 1997 and a novel by E.L. Doctorow from 2000.
Augustine
Augustine
Tales of the City - novel - has 240 pages.
St. Augustine
The last novel written by Toni Morrison was "God Help the Child," published in 2015.
Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine.
Saint Augustine.
It was written by Campbell Craig, Colm Jamison and Jason Gilchrist.
Yes, No Longer At Ease, and Arrow of God in particular.