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Genre/Form: | Essay Narrative non-fiction essays Essays Essais |
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Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arundhati Roy |
ISBN: | 9781608463855 1608463850 |
OCLC Number: | 859046489 |
Description: | 125 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Preface: The president took the salute -- Capitalism: a ghost story -- I'd rather not be Anna -- Dead men talking -- Kashmir's fruits of discord -- A perfect day for democracy -- Consequences of hanging Afzal Guru -- Afterword: Speech to the people's university. |
Responsibility: | Arundhati Roy. |
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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 StrangerPraise 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 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 StrangerPraise 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 Read more...


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