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…
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…
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…
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESKThe chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the fr…
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…
A richly moving new novel -- the first since the author's Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an i…
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness " The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadn…
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…
The chant of "Azadi!"--Urdu for "Freedom!"--is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu N…
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…
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world - and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech i…
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…
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…
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…
Addresses some of the urgent questions which have been posed by the war in Afghanistan.
Royn hartaasti odotettu toinen romaani on julmankaunis tarinoiden kudelma värikylläisestä nyky-Intiasta Itsenäisyyttä havittelevan Kashmirin maakunnan räjähdysherkkä tilanne muodostaa kehyksen tarinalle, joka saattaa yhteen kaksi ihmiskohtaloa: kork…
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…
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…
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.
In this acclaimed Lannan foundation lecture from September 2002, Roy speaks poetically to power on the US' War on Terror, globalization, the misuses of nationalism, and the growing chasm between the rich and poor. With lyricism and passion, Roy comb…
"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…
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…
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…
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 of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 engel…
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…
'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 I…
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…
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 I…
"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…
Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete nonfiction. 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 s…
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 b…
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. Fra Delhis gamle bydel og den pulserende storby…
