My Seditious Heart
Collected Nonfiction

Name: My Seditious Heart
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 9781982680008

Author: Arundhati Roy

Narrator: Tania Rodrigues

Unabridged: 36 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/04/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Political Science, Human Rights, History, Asian & Pacific Islander History, Globalization

Synopsis

Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), 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.Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Roy offers a powerful defense 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 Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, as well as several nonfiction titles. She was trained as an architect and has worked as a production designer and screenwriter for two films.

About Tania Rodrigues

Tania Rodrigues is a London-based actor and voice artist and an Earphones Award–winning narrator. She brings a unique cultural perspective to her work, coming from a family with roots in India, Portugal, and Britain. She grew up in Hong Kong and has since lived in both the UK and US. She trained at the Drama Studio in London and completed a BA degree with honors in English and drama. She has narrated many award-winning audiobooks, including the Booker Prize winner The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

Compilation of Roy’s best nonfiction over 20 years… I’m all caught up! --Well, what can I say. With the best books, I always feel humbled experiencing the mental tapestry crafted over many years by the author, a synthesis of lineages of thoughts culminating in a work of many lifetimes. It is a wondro......more

Goodreads review by Karthik

The most amazing fact about the book is that the essays in this book which are said to have been written from 2000s almost project the image of present India. Arundhati Roy is a writer who has been gifted with a rare level of clairvoyance that she has been able to perfectly see it through time. A bo......more

Goodreads review by Kshitij

Arundhati Roy - the writer with guts. This collected nonfiction written between the time period of publication of her two fictions reflects her intellectual and personal growth as a writer and a concerned citizen. On the other hand, this book depicts the transformation of India (the world too) from......more

Goodreads review by Kartik

How do I even review such a feat of a book? This is a 1000 page tome that contains a collection of essays that range from the Kashmir Issue, Economic Inequality, Religious Fundamentalism, Casteism, Ecology and many more. It will be nearly impossible for a single person to properly dissect and review......more

Quotes

“Arundhati Roy calls for ‘factual precision’ alongside of the ‘real precision of poetry.’ Remarkably, she combines those achievements to a degree that few can hope to approach.” Noam Chomsky

“Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essays—which are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanity.” Junot Díaz, New York Times bestselling author

“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” Howard Zinn

“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time…Courageous, visionary, and erudite.” Cornel West, praise for the author

“Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” Naomi Klein, praise for the author

“The world has never had to face such global confusion. Only in facing it can we make sense of what we have to do. And this is precisely what Arundhati Roy does.” John Berger, praise for the author