My Seditious Heart

‘every page gifts you her far seeing, her calm and intelligent urgency, the wisdom and relief of her articulacy, her courage’ * Ali Smith *Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time – Naomi KleinArundhati 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 ChomskyArundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays – Howard ZinnThe scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating * New York Times Book Review *Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time … courageous, visionary, and erudite – Cornel WestHer incomparable divining rod picks up the cries of the despised and the oppressed in the most remote corners of the globe; it even picks up the cries of rivers and fish. With an unfailing charm and wit that makes her writing constantly enlivening to read, her analysis of our grotesque world is savagely clear, and yet her anger never obscures her awareness that beauty, joy, and pleasure can potentially be part of the life of human beings – Wallace ShawnRoy is of course a consummate storyteller…[the essays] are thick with intelligence and firmly bolstered with fact. * The Observer *

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.