Arundhati Roy
Indian novelist and activist whose debut The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize and became a global literary sensation. Her work combines political commitment with extraordinary lyrical beauty. Her long-awaited second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness appeared twenty years later.
Works
- The God of Small ThingsTragic love story set in Kerala exploring class and caste divisions
- The Ministry of Utmost HappinessInterconnected stories of marginalized people in contemporary India
- Listening to Grasshoppers
- The Algebra of Infinite JusticeEssays exploring nuclear weapons and American imperialism in India
- The End of Imagination
- Capitalism: A Ghost StoryCritique of capitalism and its global manifestations