New Releases by Arundhati Roy

El esperado regreso de una autora «superlativamente brillante» (The New York Review of Books). La premio Booker por El dios de las pequeñas cosas firma un poderoso memoir sobre su madre, un acontecimiento editorial mundial. «Una de las pensadoras más lúcidas y originales de nuestro tiempo». --Naomi Klein «Una novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Arundhati Roy es una cazadora de historias de vida».--Javier del Pino, Cadena SER Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y «más que un poco avergonzada» por la intensidad de su reacción, Arundhati Roy comenzó a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huyó a los dieciocho años, «no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir amándola». Así empieza esta historia asombrosa, el libro que Roy lleva «escribiendo toda la vida», un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. Con la amplitud, el alcance y la profundidad de novelas tan icónicas como El dios de las pequeñas cosas, este libro es un canto a la libertad y un homenaje al amor espinoso, un último abrazo entre madre e hija. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati''s life both as a woman and a writer. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy''s first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary''s death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn''t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author''s journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--a memoir like no other.

Uno de los grandes fenómenos editoriales de las últimas décadas. Un debut que ganó el Booker, traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas y con ocho millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. «Una magia y una calidez que no he vuelto a encontrar en ningún libro». Laura Ferrero, ABC Cultural «La calidad del libro de Arundhati Roy es tan extraordinaria al mismo tiempo tan intenso moralmente y de tal riqueza imaginativa que el lector permanece total y absolutamente atrapado hasta el final». The New York Times Book Review Debut de una desconocida Arundhati Roy en el año 1997, El dios de las pequeñas cosas ha sido uno de los grandes fenómenos editoriales de las últimas décadas. Ganador del Premio Booker y traducido a más de cuarenta lenguas, es ya un clásico contemporáneo con ocho millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Estha y Rahel, dos gemelos del sur de la India, descubren muy pronto que el amor —como las leyes que rigen sus vidas— tiene límites inquebrantables. La visita de su prima Sophie, el regreso de su madre y un gesto fuera de lugar desencadenan una serie de acontecimientos cuyos ecos resuenan años después transformando para siempre su mundo. Esta saga familiar comparada con obras de Gabriel García Márquez y de Salman Rusdie es mucho más que el retrato de una familia. Es una joya narrativa sobre el deseo y la pérdida, la infancia y sus fracturas, el amor y la justicia. Una novela llena de belleza sobre las decisiones que cambian una vida entera. La crítica ha dicho: « El dios de las pequeñas cosas está empapado de colores y sensaciones, ensartadas con las descripciones de un país lleno de matices y marcado por el machismo de la sociedad». Belen Ginart, El País «Una trama compleja y ambiciosa, impulsada por una prosa barroca y exuberante». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «La calidad del libro de Arundhati Roy es tan extraordinaria al mismo tiempo tan intenso moralmente y de tal riqueza imaginativa que el lector permanece total y absolutamente atrapado hasta el final». The New York Times Book Review «Un libro que nos acerca al terror y la belleza y nos proporciona una omnisciente visión de la India moderna... Una novela de verdadera ambición debe crear su propio lenguaje y ésta lo hace. Un debut deslumbrante». John Updike «Roy —referente para intelectuales occidentales como Judith Butler o Naomi Klein— encarna la figura de la intelectual radical, a la vez global y muy arraigada en la India, su civilización y su universo de referencias». Marc Bassets, El País

''De vertelstem van Roy is zo uitzonderlijk, moreel indringend en rijk aan verbeelding tegelijk, dat je van begin tot eind betoverd blijft.'' The New York Times Arundhati Roy''s debuutroman De God van Kleine Dingen is een moderne klassieker, die wel wordt vergeleken met het werk van Faulkner en Dickens. Deze wereldwijd geliefde roman is een aangrijpend familierelaas, een geheime liefdesgeschiedenis en een politiek drama tegelijk. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van een welgestelde Indiase familie, voorgoed getekend door één noodlottige dag in 1969. De komst van hun beeldschone nichtje Sophie zet de wereld van de zevenjarige tweeling Estha en Rahel volledig op zijn kop. Wat volgt is een reeks van verboden verlangens en tragische gebeurtenissen – zowel toevallig als doelbewust – die de ''grote dingen die onuitgesproken blijven'' blootleggen in een land dat gevaarlijk snel richting onrust afglijdt. ''Een echt ambitieuze roman moet zijn eigen taal uitvinden, en dat doet deze.'' John Updike, The New Yorker ''''Een epische roman.'' NRC ''Een droomdebuut.'' Trouw

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Nominated for the Women''s Prize for Nonfiction One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer. In this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, “Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.” Mother Mary Comes to Me, is an intimate chronicle, “full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence” (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist’s unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.” “Heart-smashed” by Mary’s death, yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.” With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me “builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose” (The New Republic). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir like no other.

A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer’s work, and more. 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 here by David Barsamian. This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a moving foreword by Naomi Klein, explores Roy’s evolving political thought and commitments across the tumultuous twenty-first entry. The Architecture of Modern Empire is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms, and the role of imagination and creative expression in envisioning a radically different world.

»Mein aufrührerisches Herz« zeigt die dunkle Kehrseite Indiens und ist ein Plädoyer für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Ihr Mut wird bewundert, ihre Unbeirrtheit gefürchtet: Seit ihrem Bestseller »Der Gott der kleine Dinge« tritt Arundhati Roy für ein gerechteres Indien ein, für Freiheit, die nicht nur für die Wenigen gilt. Sie scheut kein Risiko. Sie kämpft nicht nur mit der Feder, sondern auch auf der Straße: gegen die von Modi angezettelten Pogrome, gegen die Besetzung Kaschmirs, gegen Abholzung und den Bau von Staudämmen, die ganze Landschaften zerstören. »Mein aufrührerisches Herz« zeichnet nicht nur diese Reisen einer engagierten Schriftstellerin und couragierten Bürgerin nach, sondern schließt den Bogen zwischen ihren beiden bewunderten Romanen »Der Gott der kleinen Dinge« und »Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks«: Ihr Engagement ist ihr Leben.

Inspired by Mao''s Little Red Book, the new Expanded Edition of The Proletarian''s Pocketbook comes full of quotes to inspire and teach the science of revolution to the oppressed and working people of the world, building a path towards liberation, socialism and justice. With teachings from more than 100 oppressed, colonized, exploited, successful and working revolutionaries from around our Earth, the Expanded Edition is bound to inspire the revolutionary spirit inside you and your comrades to educate, organize, and build the revolution! This new edition comes with even more quotes, more revolutionaries cited, a reading recommendation page, and a handful of posters and charts. All Power to the People, We''ve Got a World to Win! Full list of authors: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Mumia Abu-Jamal Sundiata Acoli John Africa Samir Amin Kuwasi Balagoon James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Willie Baptist Amiri Baraka Maurice Bishop James and Grace Lee Boggs Bertolt Brecht Safiya Bukhari Amilcar Cabral Berta Caceres Fidel Castro Aimé Césaire Combahee River Collective Angela Davis Dialego Dimitrov DMX Frederick Douglass W.E.B. Du Bois Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Friedrich Engels Zhou Enlai Frantz Fanon Kiran Fatima Silvia Federici Les Feinberg Clara Fraser Paulo Freire Anuradha Ghandy Nikki Giovanni Antonio Gramsci Che Guevara Fred Hampton Kathleen Hanna Harry Haywood Ho Chi Min bell hooks Enver Hoxha Dolores Ibarruri Kim Il-Sung George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Marsha P. Johnson Claudia Jones Frida Kahlo Ghasson Kanafani Leila Khaled Martin Luther King, Jr. Alexandra Kollantai L.A. Research Group Vladimir Lenin Audre Lorde Rosa Luxemburg Nelson Mandela Mao Tse-Tung Manning Marable Sub Marcos José Mariátegui Carlos Marighella Bob Marley Karl Marx Charu Mazumdar Chico Mendes Evo Morales Toni Morrison Fred Moten Huey P. Newton Kwame Nkrumah Julius Nyerere Nyurba Lola Olufemi Michael Parenti Leonard Peltier Rashid The Red Nation Paul Robeson Walter Rodney Arundhati Roy J. Sakai Thomas Sankara Lucia Sánchez Saornil Bobby Seale Chief Seattle Assata Shakur Tupac Shakur Nina Simone Bhagat Singh Joseph Stalin Sukarno Doris Tijeriino Sèkou Tourè Kwame Ture Dhoruba Bin Wahad Harsha Walia Lilla Watson Malcolm X Xi Jinping Malala Yousafzai

Azadi signifie "liberté" en ourdou. Il s''agit, à l''origine, d''un cri de ralliement cachemiri contre le gouvernement indien qui a été repris par le peuple lui-même pour protester contre ses dirigeants. Dans ce recueil d''essais brûlants d''actualité, Arundhati Roy nous met au défi de réfléchir sur le sens de la liberté dans un monde où l''autoritarisme va croissant. À travers ces textes, et ces temps troublés, elle explore l''importance du langage, le rôle de la fiction et de l''imagination, ainsi que les répercussions de la crise sanitaire sur la société indienne. Pour Arundhati Roy, la pandémie que nous traversons fait figure de portail entre un monde et un autre. En dépit de la maladie et de la dévastation qu''elle produit dans son sillage, elle représente peut-être aussi une chance pour l''humanité d''inventer un monde différent.

आज़ादी—कश्मीर में आज़ादी के संघर्ष का नारा है, जिससे कश्मीरी उस चीज़ की मुख़ालफ़त करते हैं जिसे वे भारतीय क़ब्ज़े के रूप में देखते हैं। विडम्बना ही है कि यह भारत की सड़कों पर हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद की परियोजना की मुख़ालफ़त करनेवाले लाखों अवाम का नारा भी बन गया। आज़ादी की इन दोनों पुकारों के बीच क्या है–क्या यह एक दरार है या एक पुल है? इस सवाल के जवाब पर ग़ौर करने का वक़्त अभी आया ही था कि सड़कें ख़ामोश हो गईं। सिर्फ़ भारत ही नहीं, पूरी दुनिया की सड़कें। कोविड–19 के साथ आई आज़ादी की एक और समझ, जो कहीं ख़ौफ़नाक थी। इसने मुल्कों के बीच सरहदों को बेमानी बना दिया, सारी की सारी आबादियों को क़ैद कर दिया और आधुनिक दुनिया को इस तरह ठहराव पर ला दिया जैसा कभी नहीं देखा गया था। रोमांचित कर देनेवाले इन लेखों में अरुंधति रॉय एक चुनौती देती हैं कि हम दुनिया में बढ़ती जा रही तानाशाही के दौर में आज़ादी के मायनों पर ग़ौर करें। इन लेखों में, हमारे बेचैन कर देनेवाले इस वक़्त में निजी और सार्वजनिक ज़ुबानों पर बात की गई है, बात की गई है क़िस्सागोई और नए सपनों की ज़रूरत की। रॉय के मुताबिक़, महामारी एक नई दुनिया की दहलीज़ है। जहाँ आज यह महामारी बीमारियाँ और तबाही लेकर आई है, वहीं यह एक नई क़िस्म की इंसानियत के लिए दावत भी है। यह एक मौक़ा है कि हम एक नई दुनिया का सपना देख सकें।

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair''s "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing together some of the finest contemporary writers, this wide-ranging anthology, from reportage and "faction" to fiction, explores the impact of this "long war" throughout the world, from Palestine to Iraq, Abu Ghraib, the curtailment of civil liberties and manipulation of public opinion. Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror.

''La nuit où Jahanara Bégum lui donna naissance fut la plus heureuse de sa vie. Le lendemain matin, dans la douce chaleur de la chambre, elle démaillota le petit Aftab. Elle explora son corps minuscule sans se presser, au comble du ravissement. C’est à ce moment qu’elle découvrit, niché sous ses parties masculines, un petit organe, à peine formé, mais indubitablement féminin.'' Embrassant le destin chaotique de l’Inde contemporaine, l’auteur du Dieu des Petits Riens nous emporte dans un voyage au long cours, des quartiers surpeuplés du Vieux Delhi vers la nouvelle métropole en plein essor et, au-delà, vers la Vallée du Cachemire et les forêts de l’Inde centrale, en compagnie d’un chœur de laissés-pour-compte, des êtres sans cesse brisés par l’Histoire, mais qui ne se rendent jamais.

Brings together five of Arundhati Roy''s acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time.

Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: "An electrifying political essayist . . . uplifting . . . galvanizing." — Booklist From the Booker Prize-winning author of such works as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, My Seditious Heart collects nonfiction spanning over twenty years and chronicles a battle for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, these essays are told in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense 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. "Her lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling." —Pankaj Mishra, Time Magazine Praise for Arundhati Roy: "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." —Howard Zinn "One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." —Naomi Klein "The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating." — The New York Times Book Review

La India es un país de mil doscientos millones de personas y es la "democracia" más grande del mundo, con más de 800 millones de votantes. Pero las 100 personas más ricas del país poseen activos que equivalen a una cuarta parte del Producto Interior Bruto. El resto de la población son fantasmas en un sistema más allá de su control. Millones de personas viven con menos de dos dólares al día. Cientos de miles de agricultores se suicidan cada año incapaces de hacer frente a sus deudas. Los dalits son expulsados de sus aldeas porque los propietarios, que les arrebataron sus tierras por no tener escrituras de propiedad, quieren dedicar la tierra a la agroindustria. Estos son sólo algunos ejemplos de los "brotes verdes" de una economía que ha corrompido a la India contemporánea. Arundhati Roy examina el lado oscuro de la democracia y muestra cómo las exigencias del capitalismo globalizado han sometido a miles de millones de personas al racismo y a la explotación. La autora expone cómo las megacorporaciones han desposeído de recursos naturales al país y han sido capaces de influir a través del Gobierno en todas las partes del país, utilizando habitualmente al ejército y su fuerza bruta con fines lucrativos, así como a una amplia gama de ONG y fundaciones, para decidir la formulación de políticas en la India.

"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author''s Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, ''The God of Small Things, '' went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'' transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety -- in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'' is at once a love story and a provocation -- a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in -- and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy''s storytelling gifts."--

SORVEGLIANZA DI MASSA E LIBERTA’ DI ESPRESSIONE DEI CITTADINI: UNA SFIDA APERTA «Nelle mani di Arundhati le parole diventano armi.» Naomi Klein «Un incontro straordinario.» The NEw York Times Nell’inverno del 2014, l’attore americano John Cusack, da sempre impegnato sul fronte dei diritti civili, ha un’idea. Far incontrare i due più celebri whistleblower americani, due fedeli servitori del governo statunitense che in epoche diverse hanno avuto il coraggio di renderne pubblici gli abusi: Daniel Ellsberg, il funzionario del Pentagono che nel 1971 rivelò i piani della guerra in Vietnam, e Edward Snowden, l’informatico ed ex tecnico della CIA che nel 2013 denunciò le intercettazioni a tappeto condotte dalla National Security Agency. All’incontro sarà invitata anche Arundhati Roy, una delle voci più chiare e implacabili che si sono levate negli ultimi anni contro la politica imperialista di molti stati, in linea con la posizione di Julian Assange, fondatore di WikiLeaks. Da questo «contro-summit» nasce un libro potente e provocatorio, che interroga tutti noi: che significato hanno davvero le bandiere, il patriottismo, le grandi organizzazioni internazionali? Quale ruolo ricoprono il dissenso e la ricerca della verità in una realtà in cui il denaro può liberamente varcare limiti e confini sociali, culturali, geografici, mentre le persone e le parole non possono farlo?

In the winter of 2014, Arundhati Roy and actor John Cusack met Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg, the Snowden of the 1960s. Their conversations touched on some of the great themes of our times Ð the nature of the state, surveillance in an era of perpetual war, and the meaning of patriotism

Genom de sjuåriga tvillingarna Rahel och Estha skildras den indiska delstaten Keralas historia där släktbråk, kastsystem och politik har byggt murar kring kärleken. Det finns stränga regler för vem som får älska vem. Och hur mycket. Men i bakgrunden, alltid närvarande, finns De Små Tingens Gud som skänker stunder av gränslös njutning och närhet. Mot en fond av ljuvliga dofter, mustiga färger och förbjudna känslor tecknar Arundhati Roy med säker hand denna levande och gripande släktkrönika. De Små Tingens Gud är Arundhati Roys debutroman som 1997 belönades med det prestigefyllda Booker-priset.

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

From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline expose of brutal repression in India In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. Roy takes readers to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. In documenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the much larger question of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societies existing outside of its colossal control.

2009–2012 War has spread from India’s borders to the forests in the very heart of the country. Here are four essays by Arundhati Roy including the heatedly debated ‘Walking with the Comrades’ that combines a clear-eyed, analytical overview with extraordinary reportage from the ground of the Maoist guerrilla zone and her most recent essay, ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story’. Broken Republic examines the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks some fundamental questions about the real meaning of civilization itself.