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With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.
List of contents
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Preface:
The President Took the Salute
Section I
Ch 1: Capitalism A Ghost Story
Ch 2: I would rather not be Anna
Ch 3: Dead Men Talking
Section II
Ch 4: Kashmir's Fruits of Discord
Ch 5: A Perfect Day for Democracy
Ch 6: Consequences of Hanging Afzal Guru
Afterword:
Ch 7 Speech to People's University 16 Nov 2011
About the author
Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into forty languages worldwide. She has written several non-fiction books, including Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, published by Haymarket Books.
Summary
With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.
Foreword
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Capitalism feels like straight reportage from the front lines of a war. In every part of the world, the rich few keep getting richer on the backs of a population that continues to work harder and grow poorer for it. And Roy keeps sending these furious, intelligent bulletins to alert us to what's going on. More people than ever are listening to her." —The Stranger
Praise for Arundhati Roy's Field Notes on Democracy:
"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
"In her searing account, Roy asks whether our shriveled forms of democracy will be 'the endgame of the human race'—and shows vividly why this is a prospect not to be lightly dismissed." —Noam Chomsky
“The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An electrifying political essayist... So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons, assaults against the environment, and the endless suffering of the poor that her essays are as uplifting as they are galvanizing.” —Booklist
