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…
De små tingens gud blev snabbt en modern klassiker som lästs och älskats över hela världen. Genom de sjuåriga tvillingarna Rahel och Estha kanaliseras södra Indiens historia där släktbråk, kastsystem och politik har byggt murar kring kärleken. Men i…
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 so…
En vidunderlig roman om kärlek. Kärlek som föds där man minst av allt förväntar sig det. Kärlek man ger allt för. Kärlek man går under av.<br/><br/> Arundhati Roy återvänder till skönlitteraturen tjugo år efter att den älskade och bästsä…
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent - from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi and the glittering malls of the burgeoning new metropolis to the snowy mountains and valleys of Kashmir, w…
The literary phenomenon of the year.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingl…
I Kapitalismen – en spökhistoria undersöker Arundhati Roy den Indiska demokratins mörka sidor – i ett land med 1,2 miljarder invånare, där de hundra rikaste personerna äger tillgångar motsvarande en fjärdedel av landets BNP. Det är ett s…
'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .'So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's…
Arundhati Roys slægtsroman fra det moderne Indien om livsglæde og tragik, patos og humor, politik og erotik – et stensikkert must read.De små tings gud er en tragisk og underfundig fortælling om en indisk families skæbne i et land, hvor engels…
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner…
Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens when it was first published twenty years ago, this extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of…
The End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author. This new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost o…
'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 In…
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 ghost…
My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, these essays…
En vidunderlig roman om kärlek som föds där man minst av allt anar det. Följ med på en vindlande resa i tid och rum. Från gränderna i Delhi, genom Centralindiens täta skogar till Kashmirs mäktiga berg. Vi möter Anjum, som en gång hette Aftab och var…
"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 writin…
"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"Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the en…
Den prisbelönta och internationellt kända författaren av Den yttersta lyckans ministerium och De små tingens gud, Arundhati Roy, avslöjar i Vandra med kamrater den brutala repression som den indiska regeringen bedriver i Indien.I detta intensivt eng…
New York Times Best Seller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Hudson Group A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The G…
National Bestseller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor The Mini…
Addresses some of the urgent questions which have been posed by the war in Afghanistan.
Royn hartaasti toinen romaani on julmankaunis tarinoiden kudelma värikylläisestä nyky-Intiasta Itsenäisyyttä havittelevan Kashmirin maakunnan räjähdysherkkä tilanne muodostaa kehyksen tarinalle, joka saattaa yhteen kaksi ihmiskohtaloa: korkeaan kast…
Miten voi kertoa pirstaleisen tarinan? Muuttumalla hiljalleen jokaiseksi. Ei. Muuttumalla hiljalleen kaikeksi. Arundhati Royn hartaasti odotettu toinen romaani on unohtumaton rakkaustarina ja ärhäkkä kannanotto. Sen kerronnassa vuorottelevat huudot…
Äärimmäisen onnen ministeriö vie lukijansa hurjalle matkalle: Delhin ahtaista kortteleista kimaltaviin ostosparatiiseihin ja edelleen Kashmirin lumisille vuorille ja kauniisiin laaksoihin, missä sota on rauhaa ja rauha sotaa. Anjum, joka ennen oli A…
Krydret og sansemættet roman, fyldt med tragik og - ikke mindst - komik. En historie om voksenverdenen set med barnets undrende og spørgende øjne. Og om hvordan drift kan føre til salig fryd - og til fortabelse. 'Dette års litterære sensation' - Tim…
Joutavuuksien jumala on maaginen, luomavan kaunis yhdistelmä kauhua ja elämänrikkautta. Intialaisen perheen tarina avautuu kuin pähkinä - sen syiden ja seurausten verkosta kasvaa vangitseva unenomainen tragedia.
Ministeriet for den høyeste lykke er Arundhati Roys første roman på tjue år. Den tar oss med på en reise over flere år og på tvers av et subkontinent - fra de trangbodde nabolagene i Dehlis gamleby til den blomstrende, nye verdensmetropolen som omgi…
In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden. In…
I den lille byen Ayemenem i den indiske delstaten Kerala bor den syrisk-kristne familien Kochamma, med de toeggede tvillingene Rahel og Estha. De vokser opp mellom syltetøy og pickles i sin blinde bestemor Mammachis fabrikk, i et politisk turbulent…
Praise for Arundhati Roy: "Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays." --Howard Zinn"Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and origina…
Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete nonfiction. Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart coll…
Kritiske essays bl.a. om korruption og magtmisbrug i Indien, USAs kamp mod terror, atomkapløb og religiøs fanatisme.
Three new essays by India's fiercest, most outspoken and fearless political activistWar 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…
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 sk&ael…
Livsglæde og tragik, patos og humor, politik og erotik blandes i en uimodståelig cocktail i denne slægtsroman fra det moderne Indien. Det er de sene 60'ere. Indien hærges af politiske spændinger, der også sætter sit præg på det lille samfund Ayemene…
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 v…
In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and…
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 ghos…
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of M. K. Gandhi and why B. R. Ambedkar's brilliant challenge to his near-divine status was suppressed by…
Four young British Muslims have been identified as the suicide bombers in London. Parts of the liberal press have pondered the question of how apparently nice young people could become embroiled in such fearful events. One young man was a proficient…
THE BOOK WAS INTERNATIONALLY FELICITATED BY THE BOOKER AWARD . THE VOICE AND ECHOES, THE TEARS AND THE SMILES, THE CALLS AND THE ANSWERS COMING OUT OF THE CORE OF THE EARTH ARE THE SOUL OF THIS NOVEL, GOD OF SMALL THINGS . IT IS GARNISHED WITH THE I…
From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline expos of brutal repression in India In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy d…
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…
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018T…
Tyve år efter den mesterlige De små tings gud er Arundhati Roy tilbage med en ny storslået roman. Ministeriet for den ypperste lykke tager os med på en rejse tværs over det store indiske subkontinent…
For en varm, humoristisk og fremsynet indisk familie ændres hele livsindholdet i løbet af få timer, da en engelsk kusine ankommer til det lille samfund i 1960'ernes politiske og alligevel sansemættede atmosfære
