Overview

Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defence of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military and governmental elites. In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from 'The End of Imagination', which begins this book, to 'My Seditious Heart', with which it ends.

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Author:   Arundhati Roy
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 4.70cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.881kg
ISBN:  

9780241366516

ISBN 10:   0241366518
Pages:   1040
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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The intensity of Roy's writing - the sheer amount she cares about these people - compels you to concentrate * Daily Telegraph on 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' * A passionate political masterpiece' * Times Literary Supplement on 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' * An author worth waiting two decades for * Financial Times on 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' *

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Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of nonfiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

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