Books by Arundhati Roy
Born: 1961Arundhati Roy Biography & Notes
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, author of The God of Small Things, for which she won the Booker Prize.
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father. She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture.
Arundhati met her film-maker husband in 1984, under whose influence she moved into films. She acted in the role of a village girl in the award-winning movie Massey Sahib, and wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones and Electric Moon.
She began writing The God of Small Things in 1992 and finished it in 1996. She received half-a-million pounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries. The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam.
Roy is also a well known peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection "The Cost of Living," in which she also begins her crusade against India's massive hydroelectric dam project. Since that time she has devoted herself solely to non-fiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for humanist causes.
In 2002 she was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam Project, but received only a symbolic sentence of one day in prison.
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May, 2004, for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father. She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture.
Arundhati met her film-maker husband in 1984, under whose influence she moved into films. She acted in the role of a village girl in the award-winning movie Massey Sahib, and wrote the screenplays for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones and Electric Moon.
She began writing The God of Small Things in 1992 and finished it in 1996. She received half-a-million pounds in advances, and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries. The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam.
Roy is also a well known peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection "The Cost of Living," in which she also begins her crusade against India's massive hydroelectric dam project. Since that time she has devoted herself solely to non-fiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for humanist causes.
In 2002 she was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court in New Delhi for accusing the court of attempting to silence protests against the Narmada Dam Project, but received only a symbolic sentence of one day in prison.
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May, 2004, for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
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13 December, a Reader The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament by Arundhati Roy ( 2006) |
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy ( 2002)
A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote the essay "The End of Imagination", in which she said: "My world has died. And I write to mourn its passing." This is a collection of her subsequent essays.
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Checkbook and the Cruise Missile Conversations With Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy ( 2004) |
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile Conversations With Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy ( 2004) |
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Come September by Arundhati Roy ( 2003) |
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The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy ( 1998) |
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Field Notes on Democracy Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy ( 2009) |
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ( )
The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family: their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day); their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin); their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher); their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt); and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, and even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. |
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Il Dio Delle Piccole Cose by Arundhati Roy ( 2002) |
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India A Mosaic by ( 2001) |
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Mumbai (Foro Social Mundial 2004) Balance Y Perspectivas De Un Movimiento De Movimientos by Arundhati Roy, Esther Vivas ( 2004) |
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New Nukes India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament by Achin Vanaik, Praful Bidwai ( 2000)
Two of India's most respected and experienced journalists and longtime anti-nuclear activists, examine the cause and consequences of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, provide a framework for understanding the global context in which they occur and map out a new approach to global nuclear abolition.
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An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire by Arundhati Roy ( 2004)
Booker Prizewinning novelist Arundhati Roy is also a powerful speaker, and here, in the form of essays, she collects her speeches on the subjects of imperialism, globalization, and what she sees as the disastrous occupation of Iraq by American troops during the administration of George W. Bush. Roy believes that the world is being taken over, divided, and corrupted by greedy global interests whose priorities are increasingly threatening to the world's poor--a population whose numbers are growing rapidly as the rich get richer. The only solutions are resistance and activism, and Roy urges people to take part in strikes, boycotts, nonviolent organizing, conscientious objection, and other tactics that can help avert disaster.
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Power Politics The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin by Arundhati Roy ( 2001) |
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Power Politics by Arundhati Roy ( 2002)
Three essays by novelist-activist Aruhdhati Roy on the evils of globalization and privatization--particularly the collaboration between American energy corporations and the Indian government in constructing dams that have driven hundreds of thousands of impoverished Indians from their homes.
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Public Power In The Age Of Empire by Arundhati Roy ( 2004) |
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Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan Causes, Consequences and India's Response by Arundhati Roy ( 1987) |
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War Is Peace by Noam Chomsky, Tony Simpson, Johan Galtung, Ken Coates, HaroldHarold Pinter, Achin Vanaik, Arundhati Roy, Michael Barratt Brown, Steve Boggin, Pamela White ( 2001) |
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War Talk by Arundhati Roy ( 2003)
Noted author Roy continues her exploration into nonfiction with this third volume, touching on a range of subjects afflicting the world, from poverty and privation to the lack of conscientious global leadership today.
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War With No End by Hanif Kureishi, John Berger, Arundhati Roy, Haifa Zangana ( 2007)
Draws on the perspectives of leading writers to explore the impact of the War on Terror throughout the world, in an anthology published in conjunction with the Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice that includes contributions by such figures as John Berger, Naomi Klein, and Joe Sacco. Original.
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World Tribunal on Iraq Making the Case Against War by ( 2008) |
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