My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
989 pages
|Published: 4 Jun 2019
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ISBN: 9781608466764
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 4 June 2019
Description
Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), 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 world. Taken together, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites.