Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire - Softcover

Roy, Arundhati

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896087271 ISBN 13: 9780896087279

Publisher: South End Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Discusses global politics, democracy, media empires, and the situation in Iraq.

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Review:

‘Though she be but little, she is fierce. Roy is witty and moving, and her passion is focused and mordant. She is a great modern rhetorician, treading the boards of a world stage.’ The Times

‘Roy is excellent at putting across the rational arguments and web of facts that are necessary to back up her opinions. She has a good command of both the big picture and the small and allows people to speak for themselves, pushing those who are often forgotten into the foreground of the debate.’ Natasha Walter, Guardian

‘Roy should be required reading.’ Marie Claire

‘Roy is always passionately intense. Her controversial views on terrorism are single-minded and uncompromising. She compels you to have an opinion on matters she feels are important.’ Observer

‘Roy is to be congratulated for a real and personally risky political engagement at a time when many Western writers of her celebrity can respond to world events only from a debilitating aesthetic distance.’ Time Out

About the Author:

Arundhati Roy wowed critics with her writing debut, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published several collections of essays The Cost of Living, Power Politics and most recently War Talk. Ms. Roy is an outspoken critic of India's nuclear weapons testing, controversial environmental issues and the US "war on terrorism".

About this edition

• Publisher: South End Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0896087271
• ISBN 13: 9780896087279
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156