Books by Arundhati Roy and Complete Book Reviews

Arundhati Roy, Author . South End $40 (108p) ISBN 978-0-89608-656-2
This second nonfiction book from the author of the acclaimed novel The God of Small Things returns to the subject she first explored in The Cost of Living: what she sees as the iniquity of globalization and the dangers of privatization, particularly
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Arundhati Roy, Author Random House Inc $23 (321p) ISBN 978-0-679-45731-2
With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and keen insight into human nature, Roy's debut novel charts fresh territory in the genre of magical, prismatic literature. Set in Kerala, India, during the late...
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Arundhati Roy, Author Haymarket Books $20 (253p) ISBN 978-1-60846-024-3
Genocide, denial, and truth-as-a-victim are just a few of the big subjects dealt with by Booker prize-winning Indian author and activist Roy (The God of Small Things) in this essay collection, written with fluid precision and acute rage. Covering...
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Arundhati Roy, Author South End Press $40 (156p) ISBN 978-0-89608-728-6
Those who fear the dry and impenetrable prose of many political essays need have no such reservations with this selection. Indian author Roy (The God of Small Things) brings a novelistic readability and immediacy to her impassioned critiques of...
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Arundhati Roy, Author South End Press $12 (156p) ISBN 978-0-89608-727-9
Those who fear the dry and impenetrable prose of many political essays need have no such reservations with this selection. Indian author Roy (The God of Small Things) brings a novelistic readability and immediacy to her impassioned critiques of...
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Arundhati Roy. Haymarket (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (230p) ISBN 978-1-60846-385-5
Part political journalism, part polemic, Roy's (Walking with the Comrades) book begins with Karl Marx's quip that capitalism is like a sorcerer's apprentice, conjuring forces too strong for it to control. She labels these apprentices as America's...
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Arundhati Roy, Author, Arundhati Roy, Preface by Modern Library $12.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-375-75614-6
The author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things dons a pundit's hat in her second book, and it's an awkward fit. This slim volume offers two previously published magazine articles. ""The Greater Common Good,"" which appeared in...
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Arundhati Roy. Knopf, $28.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-524-73315-5
Appearing two decades after 1997's celebrated The God of Small Things, Roy's ambitious, original, and haunting second novel fuses tenderness and brutality, mythic resonance and the stuff of front-page headlines. Anjum, one of its two protagonists,...
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Arundhati Roy, read by the author. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-525-49458-4
Twenty years after the publication of The God of Small Things, Roy proves once again that she is a master writer; unfortunately, she is not a master audiobook narrator. The book tells the stories of two protagonists: Anjum, born intersex but raised...
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