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Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 18.80cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9781642592603
ISBN 10: 1642592609
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A kind of self-assigning war correspondent seeking out the places of maximum pain, maximum injustice, maximum state violence, Arundhati Roy is one of the greatest writers of our time. --Naomi Klein
"""Arundhati Roy uses the essay as a form of combat, analysing fascism and the way it is being structured.... Her essays offer shelter to a multitude of people. In awarding the prize for her literary work, the jury is also acknowledging the author's commitment to political action."" --2023 Prix Européen de l'Essai jury ""Arundhati Roy's Azadi is a collection of essays and speeches describing India's recent descent into totalitarianism that speaks to the heart and the mind. Intelligent and thoughtful and written with empathy, it brings the reality of the situation home in way few other writers can."" --Seattle Post-Intelligencer ""Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time."" --Naomi Klein ""Roy's ... nonfictional engagement with the conflicts and traumas of a heedlessly globalized world has manifested the virtues of an unflinching emotional as well as political intelligence.... In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling."" --Pankaj Mishra ""No writer today, in India or anywhere in the world, writes with the kind of beautiful, piercing prose in defense of the wretched of the earth that Roy does.... Roy the essayist embodies the legalistic but humanistic ruthlessness of a public defender, the wit and wordplay of a poet, a comrade who takes no injustice as a given."" --Jacobin"
Author Information
Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. She has written several nonfiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Walking with the Comrades, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (with John Cusack), and The End of Imagination. She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
