My Seditious Heart
- Author Arundhati Roy
- Narrator Tania Rodrigues
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 1 day, 12 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Corruption in politics, government and society, Globalization, Literary essays, Political activism, Political oppression and persecution, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy, read by Tania Rodrigues.
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. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defence 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.
Critics Review
‘every page gifts you her far seeing, her calm and intelligent urgency, the wisdom and relief of her articulacy, her courage’
Ali SmithArundhati 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 ReviewArundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time . . . courageous, visionary, and erudite
Cornel West
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