New Releases by Arundhati Roy

Mon refuge et mon orage est une invitation à retrouver toute la puissance romanesque de la grande autrice indienne du Dieu des Petits Riens. Dans ce récit littéraire d’une infinie beauté, Arundhati Roy revient sur son passé : une enfance chaotique dans le sud de l’Inde, son émancipation précoce, le goût de l’écriture, la fulgurance du succès international avec le Booker Prize en 1997, puis la découverte que sa plume peut devenir une arme pour déjouer les injustices et la violence du gouvernement indien. Au fil des chapitres, c’est aussi le portrait de sa mère, Mary Roy, qui prend forme. Une grande âme, généreuse et adulée dans sa région pour y avoir bâti une école, mais qui dans l’intimité s’avérait une mère impitoyable et maltraitante. Toute sa vie durant, elle aura été pour sa fille à la fois son refuge et son orage. Dans ce livre magnifique au style luxuriant, Arundhati Roy nous ouvre les portes de sa vie hors norme et haletante, mêlée à celle d’une figure maternelle redoutable mais qui lui a transmis le goût de la liberté, et la nécessité d’écrire.

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

UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2025 SEGÚN THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, BABELIA, EL CULTURAL Y FOYLES 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. La crítica ha dicho: «Las memorias cristalizan un tema que recorre la obra de Roy: cómo la política y el orden social moldean, y a menudo distorsionan, nuestra capacidad de amar y sentir empatía. [...] Por encima de todo, revelan la forma de una relación: desde el momento en que Roy pudo caminar, ya marchaba al paso de una formidable rebelde». The New Yorker ("Los mejores libros de 2025 hasta ahora") «Estas memorias confirman la singularidad de su voz: una prosa que avanza en ráfagas, entre imágenes casi oníricas. [ ] Tan conmovedor como implacable, en Mi refugio y mi tormenta late la idea de que la escritura es una forma de amor torcido, de fidelidad imposible». Babelia «Dedique algunas horas de estos días a visitar sus páginas. No se arrepentirá». Jorge Zepeda Patterson, El País «Las memorias de Arundhati Roy desatarán algo primario en ti. [...] Un libro de parentesco: entre una madre testaruda y su inflexible hija; entre una autora brutalmente honesta y sus ávidos lectores». Sadaf Shaikh, Vogue «Un libro de memorias que bascula sobre la complicada relación que tuvo siempre con su madre. [ ] Ese cordón umbilical que todavía la unía con ella estaba hecho casi a partes iguales de terror y de admiración, de rencor y cariño». Jacobo de Arce, El Periódico «Roy es una mujer incómoda en un mundo en que la incomodidad se paga. [ ] Siempre vio la palabra como un animal salvaje que debía cazar y del que debía beber la sangre si quería convertirse en escritora». Sara Polo, El Mundo «Sin rencor, pero con una lúcida memoria, salda cuentas con una madre de armas tomar». Lourdes Ventura, El Cultural «Arundhati Roy tiene maneras suaves y voz dulce con las que expone opiniones contundentes». Javier Martín del Barrio, Babelia «Novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Es cazadora de historias de vida». Javier del Pino, Cadena SER «La vida de Arundhati Roy fluye en estas páginas con toda su carga ambiental, pero sorteando las barreras, inexorable, y celebrando una existencia que sabe privilegiada frente al sufrimiento humano del que ella, y quienes la leemos, somos testigos diariamente en algún lugar del planeta». Isabel Carrera Suárez, La Nueva España

'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.

»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.

IN THIS SERIES OF ELECTRIFYING ESSAYS, ARUNDHATI ROY CHALLENGES US TO REFLECT ON THE MEANING OF FREEDOM IN A WORLD OF GROWING AUTHORITARIANISM. THE ESSAYS INCLUDE MEDITATIONS ON LANGUAGE, PUBLIC AS WELL AS PRIVATE, AND ON THE ROLE OF FICTION AND ALTERNATIVE IMAGINATIONS IN THESE DISTURBING TIMES. THE PANDEMIC, ROY SAYS, IS A PORTAL BETWEEN ONE WORLD AND ANOTHER. FOR ALL THE ILLNESS AND DEVASTATION IT HAS LEFT IN ITS WAKE, IT IS AN INVITATION TO THE HUMAN RACE, AN OPPORTUNITY, TO IMAGINE ANOTHER WORLD. डोळ्यांत अंजन घालणाऱ्या या निबंधांमधून अरुंधती रॉय अधिकारशाही वृद्धिंगत होत असलेल्या या जगात स्वातंत्र्याचा अर्थ चाचपून पाहण्यासाठी आपल्याला उद्युक्त करतात. या निबंधांमध्ये सार्वजनिक तसेच खासगी भाषा आणि या अस्वस्थ कालखंडात फिक्शनसह इतर पर्यायी कल्पनांची नेमकी कोणती भूमिका असावी, याविषयीच्या चिंतनाचा समावेश आहे. रॉय म्हणतात, की ही जागतिक साथ म्हणजे दोन जगांच्या दरम्यान असलेले एक प्रवेशद्वार आहे. या साथीमुळे आरोग्याची आणि इतरही अपरिमित हानी झालेली असली, तरी तिने मनुष्यजातीला एक सुवर्णसंधी उपलब्ध करून दिली आहे. नव्या जगाची कल्पना करण्याचे आपल्या सगळ्यांना मिळालेले हे निमंत्रण आहे.

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।

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

New York Times Best Seller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Hudson Group A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope. The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi. As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 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?

Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and "one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation" ( The Washington Post). With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully condemned India's nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. The End of Imagination also includes her nonfiction works Power Politics, War Talk, Public Power in the Age of Empire, and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally. Praise for Arundhati Roy "The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart." —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." —Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn "Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essays—which are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanity—Roy is at her absolute best." —Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." —Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and The Battle For Paradise "Arundhati Roy calls for 'factual precision' alongside of the 'real precision of poetry.' Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach." —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence." — The New York Times

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.

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. Estos son sólo algunos ejemplos de los "brotes verdes" de una economía que ha corrompido a la India contemporánea.

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 Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, 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. "A riveting account . . . a necessary book by one of India’s most distinctive voices." -Washington Post

The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.

‘The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with “India’s single biggest internal security challenge”. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them...’ In early 2010, Arundhati Roy travelled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world’s biggest mining corporations. The result is this powerful and unprecedented report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.

On Naxalite movement and Indian state's counter insurgency methods and other policies

From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's disregard for the individual. In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one family in India. Now she lavishes the same acrobatic language and fierce humanity on the future of her beloved country. In this spirited polemic, Roy dares to take on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that were supposed to haul this sprawling subcontinent into the modern age--but which instead have displaced untold millions--and the detonation of India's first nuclear bomb, with all its attendant Faustian bargains. Merging her inimitable voice with a great moral outrage and imaginative sweep, Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath. For those who have been mesmerized by her vision of India, here is a sketch, traced in fire, of its topsy-turvy society, where the lives of the many are sacrificed for the comforts of the few. From the Trade Paperback edition.

'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' Combining brilliant political insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. In these essays, she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy, and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how 'progress' and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament; about the dangers of an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media. The collection ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. 'The Briefing', included as an appendix, is a fictional text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.