Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family.[...]

'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, "Listening to Grasshoppers" is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays, she takes a hard loo[...]

This title features three new essays by India's fiercest, most outspoken and fearless political activist. War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very heart of the country. Combining brilliant analysis and reportage by one of India's iconic writers, "Broken Republic" examines [...]

Addresses some of the urgent questions which have been posed by the war in Afghanistan.

In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in t[...]

"Gorgeously wrought...pitch-perfect prose...In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again."--"Time Magazine"
Combining fierce conviction, deft political analysis, and beautiful writing, this is the essential new book from Arundha[...]

India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product. The rest of the population are ghosts within a system beyond their control. This includes the millions that live on less than $2 a day; or the hundreds of tho[...]

En slægtsroman fra det moderne Indien og en fortælling om livsglæde og tragik,patos og humor, politik og erotik.

Arundhati Roys roman De små tings gud er en tragisk og underfundig fortælling om en indisk families skæbne i et land, hvor engelsk aristokrati, en spirende ka[...]

De stora dammarna är "det moderna Indiens tempel" yttrade Nehru i ett berömt tal (som han efteråt ångrade). Utbyggnaden av floden Narmada, med mer än tre tusen planerade dammar utgör redan ett monument över felslagna utvecklingsmytologier i Tredje världen - och ett exempel på det lapptäcke[...]

En modern klassiker som har lästs och älskats över hela världen. Genom de sjuåriga tvillingarna Rahel och Estha skildras södra Indiens 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 [...]

'Reading Ambedkar bridged the gap between what most Indians are schooled to believe and the reality we experience every day of our lives.' Arundhati Roy The Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important - and still the most controversial - works of Indian political writing. Completed in 193[...]