My Seditious Heart

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, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defence 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. In constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from 'The End of Imagination', which begins this book, to 'My Seditious Heart', with which it ends.

About the author

Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Arundahti Roy, Arundhati Roy, Roy Arundhati
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2019
• EAN: 9780241366516
• ISBN: 978-0-241-36651-6
• No. of pages: 1000
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, India, Political activism, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political oppression and persecution, Kashmiri, Refugees & Political Asylum, Corruption in politics, government and society