Arundhati Roy

Menestysromaanien Joutavuuksien jumala ja Äärimmäisen onnen ministeriö tekijän aseistariisuva muistelma äiti-tytärsuhteen luonnonvoimista.Teini-iässä Arundhati Roy jättää taakseen kotikylänsä ja yksinhuoltajaäitinsä, epäsovinnaisen ihmisoikeusaktivisti Mary Royn. Arundhati opiskelee arkkitehdiksi Delhissä, eivätkä äiti ja tytär puhu toisilleen vuosiin. Haparoivan jälleennäkemisen myötä Arundhati tutustuu ristiriitaiseen naiseen; yhtä hyvään kuin säälimättömään.Kun äiti kuolee, tyttären tunteet tulvivat yli. Syntyy häikäisevä, häiritsevä ja yllättävän hauska muistelma tähänastisesta elämästä ja suhteesta, joka pistelee ihon alla, joka ottaa ja antaa kaiken - kasvattaa kirjailijaksi.

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 is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for justice and self- determination continues to be brutally suppressed. Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people.

Uno de los grandes fen menos editoriales de las ltimas d cadas. Un debut que gan el Booker, traducido a m s de cuarenta idiomas y con ocho millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. «Una magia y una calidez que no he vuelto a encontrar en ning n libro . -Laura Ferrero, ABC Cultural «La calidad del libro de Arundhati Roy es tan extraordinaria al mismo tiempo tan intenso moralmente y de tal riqueza imaginativa que el lector permanece total y absolutamente atrapado hasta el final . -The New York Times Book Review Debut de una desconocida Arundhati Roy en el a o 1997, El dios de las peque as cosas ha sido uno de los grandes fen menos editoriales de las ltimas d cadas. Ganador del Premio Booker y traducido a m s de cuarenta lenguas, es ya un cl sico contempor neo con ocho millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Estha y Rahel, dos gemelos del sur de la India, descubren muy pronto que el amor --como las leyes que rigen sus vidas-- tiene l mites inquebrantables. La visita de su prima Sophie, el regreso de su madre y un gesto fuera de lugar desencadenan una serie de acontecimientos cuyos ecos resuenan a os despu s transformando para siempre su mundo. Esta saga familiar comparada con obras de Gabriel Garc a M rquez y de Salman Rusdie es mucho m s que el retrato de una familia. Es una joya narrativa sobre el deseo y la p rdida, la infancia y sus fracturas, el amor y la justicia. Una novela llena de belleza sobre las decisiones que cambian una vida entera. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the great publishing phenomena of recent decades. A debut that won the Booker Prize, translated into more than forty languages, and with eight million copies sold worldwide. "A magic and warmth that I have not found in any other book." -Laura Ferrero, ABC Cultural 'The quality of Arundhati Roy's book is so extraordinary, at the same time so morally intense and of such imaginative richness, that the reader remains totally and absolutely captivated until the end.' -The New York Times Book Review Debut of an unknown Arundhati Roy in 1997, The God of Small Things has been one of the great publishing phenomena of recent decades. Winner of the Booker Prize and translated into more than forty languages, it is already a contemporary classic with eight million readers worldwide. Estha and Rahel, twins from southern India, discover very early that love--as the laws that govern their lives--has unbreakable limits. The visit of their cousin Sophie, the return of their mother, and a misplaced gesture trigger a series of events whose echoes resonate years later, forever transforming their world. This family saga, compared to the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Salman Rushdie, is much more than a family portrait. It is a narrative gem about desire and loss, childhood and its fractures, love and justice. A novel full of beauty about decisions that change an entire life."

El esperado regreso de una autora «superlativamente brillante (The New York Review of Books). La premio Booker por El dios de las peque as cosas firma un poderoso memoir sobre su madre, un acontecimiento editorial mundial. «Una de las pensadoras m s l cidas y originales de nuestro tiempo . --Naomi Klein «Una novelista de fin sima sensibilidad. Arundhati Roy es una cazadora de historias de vida .--Javier del Pino, Cadena SER Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y «m s que un poco avergonzada por la intensidad de su reacci n, Arundhati Roy comenz a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huy a los dieciocho a os, «no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir am ndola . As empieza esta historia asombrosa, el libro que Roy lleva «escribiendo toda la vida , un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. Con la amplitud, el alcance y la profundidad de novelas tan ic nicas como El dios de las peque as cosas, este libro es un canto a la libertad y un homenaje al amor espinoso, un ltimo abrazo entre madre e hija. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary's death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author's journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--a memoir like no other.

Mitt skydd och min stormär Arundhati Roys memoarer – en gripande, personlig och inspirerande skildring av hur hon blev den människa och författare hon är idag. Med samma passion, politiska skärpa och djupa känslighet som i sina romaner, De små tingens gud och Den yttersta lyckans ministerium, skildrar Roy sitt liv från barndomen i Kerala till idag. Boken växte fram ur den ström av minnen och känslor som väcktes av hennes mor Marys bortgång 2022. Mary var en viljestark, kompromisslös och ovanlig kvinna – ensamstående mor, skolföreståndare och en avgörande kraft i Arundhatis liv. Deras relation var både komplicerad och kärleksfull, präglad av konflikter men också av en djup samhörighet. Roy skriver öppet om sin uppväxt och om hur hon vid arton års ålder valde att lämna sin mor – "inte för att jag inte älskade henne, utan för att kunna fortsätta älska henne" – och om hur deras relation format henne, både som kvinna och författare. Med ett språk lika poetiskt som osentimentalt är Mitt skydd och min storm en hyllning till friheten, en berättelse om kärlekens skarpa kanter och den vilda skönhet som ryms i livet – en memoar olik alla andra.

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 som får älska vem. Och hur mycket. Men i bakgrunden, alltid närvarande, finns de små tingens gud som skänker stunder av gränslös njutning och närhet. Detta är en mäktig släktkrönika såväl som en drabbande kärlekshistoria och ett skakande politiskt drama som man vill läsa många gånger. “Det finns böcker som får en att glömma alla andra. Det här är en sådan. Den äger en obändig kraft, vild och mäktig. Vemod och glädje. Varm sinnlighet.”Thomas Löfström, Sydsvenskan

Romanen De Små Tingens Gud slog ner som en bomb i den litterära världen och författaren Arundhati Roy belönades med Bookerpriset för den 1997. Efter tjugo års väntan gör hon nu en fantastisk skönlitterär comeback. På en kyrkogård mitt i Delhi rullar en kvinna ut en persisk matta mellan två gravstenar. På en asfalterad trottoar dyker plötsligt en bebis upp från ingenstans. I en snöig dal skriver en sörjande pappa ett brev till sin femåriga dotter och berättar om alla människor som deltog på hennes begravning. På andra våningen i ett hyreshus sitter en ensam kvinna och röker medan hon läser igenom sina gamla anteckningsböcker. Och på ett slitet värdshus sover två människor som älskat varandra hela livet med armarna hårt lindade om varandra. En vidunderlig roman om kärlek. Kärlek där du minst av allt förväntar dig den, under de mest osannolika omständigheter. Sådan kärlek man gör allt för. Sådan kärlek man går under av. “Satir, politik, kärlek och gränsöverskridanden kommer till gripande uttryck på romanens tematiska nivå. Men själva överskridandet utgör också Arundhati Roys suveränt behärskade teknik. “ Svenska Dagbladet

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other.

‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’ Estha and Rahel, seven-year-old twins, are growing up amidst vats of banana jam, mountains of peppercorns and scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. But when their beautiful young cousin Sophie arrives, their world is irrevocably shaken. An illicit liaison and tragedies both accidental and intentional expose things that lurk unsaid, in a country drifting dangerously towards unrest. Winner of the Booker Prize, The God of Small Things is lush, lyrical and unnerving: a literary sensation and a modern classic.

"De små tingens gud" av Arundhati Roy är en roman om de tragiska händelserna som utspelar sig i livet för två tvillingar, Estha och Rahel, och deras familj i delstaten Kerala i södra Indien. Historien utforskar teman som kärlek, förlust, kastsystemet och samhällets stränga regler och förväntningar, och hur de påverkar individer.

From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back‘I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real…’Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy’s words have lit a clear way through the darkness that surrounds us. Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became, she illuminates the hidden structures of modern empire like no one else, revealing their workings so that we can resist.Her subjects: war, nationalism, fundamentalism and rising fascism, turbocharged by neoliberalism and now technology. But also: truth, justice, freedom, resistance, solidarity and above all imagination – in particular the imagination to see what is in front of us, to envision another way, and to fight for it.Arundhati Roy’s voice – as distinct and compelling in conversation as in her writing – explores these themes and more in this essential collection of interviews with David Barsamian, conducted over two decades, from 2001 to the present.WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM NAOMI KLEIN

A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected here by David Barsamian. This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a moving foreword by Naomi Klein, explores Roy's evolving political thought and commitments across the tumultuous twenty-first entry. The Architecture of Modern Empire is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms, and the role of imagination and creative expression in envisioning a radically different world.

A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected here by David Barsamian. This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a moving foreword by Naomi Klein, explores Roy's evolving political thought and commitments across the tumultuous twenty-first entry. The Architecture of Modern Empire is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms, and the role of imagination and creative expression in envisioning a radically different world.