A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.
Three essays by novelist-activist Aruhdhati Roy on the evils of globalization and privatization--particularly the collaboration between American energy corporations and the Indian government in constructing dams that have driven hundreds of thousands of impoverished Indians from their homes.
Booker Prizewinning novelist Arundhati Roy is also a powerful speaker, and here, in the form of essays, she collects her speeches on the subjects of imperialism, globalization, and what she sees as the disastrous occupation of Iraq by American troops during the administration of George W. Bush. Roy believes that the world is being taken over, ...
Noted author Roy continues her exploration into nonfiction with this third volume, touching on a range of subjects afflicting the world, from poverty and privation to the lack of conscientious global leadership today.
Roy is author of the Booker-winning The God of Small Things as well as a keen observer of the worldwide social and economic shakeup known as globalization. Here she sets aside her usual role as essayist and appears in four long conversations with Alternative Radio journalist Barsamian. The interview
Two Indian journalists essay the high cost to India of its arms race with its neighbors. They see changes in society that go beyond the very high monetary cost of developing and maintaining its nuclear weapons program.
"The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating."-"The New York Times Book Review" "Reading Arundhati Roy is how the peace movement arms itself. She turns our grief and rage into courage."-Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo" In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association ...
As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected by David Barsamian for The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile, recorded between 2001 and 2003. Whether discussing her childhood or the ...
"A banquet for all the senses, " said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love. (OneSource)
This volume, with contributions from more than 50 internationally renowned experts, aims to document the history of the Iraq war not from the viewpoint of the victors, but from the vanquished. Every aspect of the war is examined - from its legality to the effects of cluster bombs and depleted uranium, its ecological impact to the history of US and ...
, flooding the land they've farmed for generations in order to build This text is Arundhati Roy's tale of governmental (and international-agency) arrogance, high-handedness, corruption and idiocy. The Narmada Valley in north-western India is home to 25 million people (i.e. half the population of Britain), and since the 1970s successive federal and ...
In this acclaimed Lannan foundation lecture from September 2002, Roy speaks poetically to power on the US' War on Terror, globalization, the misuses of nationalism, and the growing chasm between the rich and poor. With lyricism and passion, Roy combines her literary talents and encyclopedic knowledge to expose injustice and provide hope for a ...
Three essays by novelist-activist Aruhdhati Roy on the evils of globalization and privatization--particularly the collaboration between American energy corporations and the Indian government in constructing dams that have driven hundreds of thousands of impoverished Indians from their homes.
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