<em>Capitalism</em> feels like straight reportage from the front lines of a war. In every part of the world, the rich few keep getting richer on the backs of a population that continues to work harder and grow poorer for it. And Roy keeps sending these furious, intelligent bulletins to alert us to what's going on. More people than ever are listening to her." <em><strong>—The Stranger</strong></em><br /><br /><p>Praise for Arundhati Roy's <em>Field Notes on Democracy</em>:</p>
<p>"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." <strong>—<em>Time</em></strong> </p>
<p><em>"In her searing account, Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'—and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed." <strong>—Noam Chomsky</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” <strong>—The New York Times Book Review</strong></em></p>
<p><em>“An electrifying political essayist... So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons, assaults against the environment, and the endless suffering of the poor that her essays are as uplifting as they are galvanizing.” <strong>—Booklist</strong></em></p>
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<i>Capitalism</i> feels like straight reportage from the front lines of a war. In every part of the world, the rich few keep getting richer on the backs of a population that continues to work harder and grow poorer for it. And Roy keeps sending these furious, intelligent bulletins to alert us to what's going on. More people than ever are listening to her." <i><b>—The Stranger</b></i><br /><br /><p>Praise for Arundhati Roy's <i>Field Notes on Democracy</i>:</p>
<p>"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." <b>—<i>Time</i></b></p>
<p><i>"In her searing account, Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'—and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed." <b>—Noam Chomsky</b></i></p>
<p><i>“The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” <b>—The New York Times Book Review</b></i></p>
<p><i>“An electrifying political essayist... So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons, assaults against the environment, and the endless suffering of the poor that her essays are as uplifting as they are galvanizing.” <b>—Booklist</b></i></p>
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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 nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalised capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.From celebration Booker Prize-winning author, Arundhati Roy.
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With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Preface:
The President Took the Salute

Section I
Ch 1: Capitalism A Ghost Story
Ch 2: I would rather not be Anna
Ch 3: Dead Men Talking

Section II
Ch 4: Kashmir's Fruits of Discord
Ch 5: A Perfect Day for Democracy
Ch 6: Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru

Afterword:
Ch 7 Speech to People's University 16 Nov 2011
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  • Arundhati Roy is among the most well-known writers and social justice activists in the world today, with a committed global audience.
  • This updated version includes essays on the Occupy movement, the ever-growing wealth imbalance in India and Kashmir, as well as why independent media journalist, David Barsamian was deported from India in 2011.
  • Her best-selling 1997 novel "The God of Small Things" and her courageous, popular interviews and essays on war and peace, contemporary India and Kashmir, U.S. imperial power, and a renewal of popular democracy across the world, have earned her a large audience and international profile.
  • Roy's writings on Southeast Asia come at a time of renewed interest in the subcontinent. But Roy offers an essential counterpoint to the caricatured Western image surrounding India's precarious version of secular democracy.
  • As indicated by the title of the book, the topics Roy explores are also of global concern. These include war, terrorism, national and ethnic identity, social inequality, the environment, and globalization itself.
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    Product details

    ISBN
    9781608463855
    Published
    2014-05-06
    Publisher
    Haymarket Books
    Height
    191 mm
    Width
    132 mm
    Age
    01, G, 01
    Language
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Number of pages
    128

    Author

    Biographical note

    Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into forty languages worldwide. She has written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, published by Haymarket Books.