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.[...]
Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India's vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns. Now available for the fist time on CD.[...]
'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[...]
From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brutal repression in IndiaIn 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-shatterin[...]
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 [...]
On publication, Arundhati Roy's first novel "The God of Small Things" (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion. This guide to Roy[...]
The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.[...]
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[...]
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a [...]
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[...]
A Critical Appraisal. .
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[...]
Rahel återvänder till Ayemenem, den barndomens spelplats där allting började 1969 - och kanske också slutade. Ayemenem - en by i den sydindiska delstaten Kerala, bubblande av känslor, dofter, smaker, röster, färger. En sprickfärdig mango, hemvist också för De Små Tingens Gud.
I en [...]
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 [...]
"Roman Critical Context" brings together the very best of contemporary critical thinking and a selection of earlier commentaries. This collection of critical essays on Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" provides in-depth intellectual and critical analysis of the text from a broad scholarly pe[...]
'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[...]