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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. Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Roy offers a powerful defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the d...

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer's desk.

AT MAGIC HOUR, WHEN THE SUN HAS GONE BUT THE LIGHT HAS NOT, ARMIES OF FLYING FOXES UNHINGE THEMSELVES FROM THE BANYAN TREES IN THE OLD GRAVEYARD AND DRIFT ACROSS THE CITY LIKE SMOKE . . .` SO BEGINS THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, ARUNDHATI ROY`S INCREDIBLE FOLLOW-UP TO THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. WE MEET ANJUM, WHO USED TO BE AFTAB, WHO RUNS A GUEST HOUSE IN AN OLD DELHI GRAVEYARD AND GATHERS AROUND HER THE LOST, THE BROKEN AND THE CAST OUT. W...

FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESKThe chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even...

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthol...

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With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.

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 'Azadi', with which it ends.

In ihrem Roman »Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks« führt uns Arundhati Roy, Autorin des Weltbestsellers »Der Gott der kleinen Dinge«, an den unwahrscheinlichsten Ort, um das Glück zu finden. Eine Reihe ausgestoßener Helden ist hier mit ihrem Schicksal konfrontiert, aber sie finden eine Gemeinschaft, sie bilden eine Familie der besonderen Art. Auf einem Friedhof in der Altstadt von Delhi wird ein handgeknüpfter Teppich ausgerollt. Auf eine...

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Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers and Broken Republic. She lives in Delhi.

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 'Azadi', with which it ends.

Parcalanmis bir hikaye nasil anlatilir Yavas yavas hikayedeki herkese, Hayir, hikayedeki her seye dönüstürerek

«Il ministero della suprema felicità» ci accompagna in un lungo viaggio nel vasto mondo dell'India: dagli angusti quartieri della vecchia Delhi agli scintillanti centri commerciali della nuova metropoli, fino alle valli e alle cime innevate del Kashmir dove la guerra è pace, la pace è guerra e occasionalmente viene dichiarato lo «stato di normalità». Anjum, nuova incarnazione di Aftab, srotola un consunto tappeto persiano nel cimitero cittadin...

In ihrem Roman »Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks« führt uns Arundhati Roy, Autorin des Weltbestsellers »Der Gott der kleinen Dinge«, an den unwahrscheinlichsten Ort, um das Glück zu finden. Eine Reihe ausgestoßener Helden ist hier mit ihrem Schicksal konfrontiert, aber sie finden eine Gemeinschaft, sie bilden eine Familie der besonderen Art. Auf einem Friedhof in der Altstadt von Delhi wird ein handgeknüpfter Teppich ausgerollt. Auf einem...

National Bestseller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmi...

India, fine anni Sessanta: Ammu, figlia di un alto funzionario, lascia il marito, alcolizzato e violento, per tornarsene a casa con i suoi due bambini. Ma, secondo la tradizione indiana, una donna divorziata è priva di qualsiasi posizione riconosciuta. Se poi questa donna commette l'inaccettabile errore di innamorarsi di un paria, un intoccabile, per lei non vi sarà più comprensione, né perdono. Attraverso gli occhi dei due bambini, Estha e Ra...

Nitido e scritto a macchina, il biglietto in busta sigillata infilato sotto la porta confermava l'appuntamento. Arundhati Roy aspettava questa notizia da mesi, era pronta: doveva farsi trovare al tempio di Ma Danteshwari nell'orario e nel giorno stabiliti, con la macchina fotografica, il tika e una noce di cocco. In questo modo il pericoloso ribelle adivasi che avrebbe incontrato, a sua volta provvisto di cappellino, rivista hindi "Outlook" e ...

In ihrem Bestsellerroman »Der Gott der kleinen Dinge« erzählt Arundhati Roy die schillernde Geschichte einer Familie, die an einer verbotenen Liebe zerbricht. Die kleinen Dinge, das sind der Streifen auf einem Wespenflügel, roter Nagellack auf den Fingern eines Schreiners, die geballte Faust auf einer Motorhaube. Die großen Dinge dagegen lauern unausgesprochen im Innern. Das wissen die siebenjährigen Zwillinge Rahel und Estha, und sie wissen...