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
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ISBN
9781608466542
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
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Haymarket Books
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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