Arundhati Roy






Arundhati Roy

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born
November 24, 1961

place of birth
Shillong, Meghalaya, India

genre
Literature & Fiction, Politics


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Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, writer and activist.

She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things, and, in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.





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avg rating: 3.94 | 23,191 ratings | 2,594 reviews | 36 distinct works | 63 fans
The God of Small Things The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 3.94 — 16,238 ratings — published 1997
62 editions
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to... An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 3.96 — 412 ratings — published 2004
5 editions
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Power Politics: Second Edition Power Politics: Second Edition
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.12 — 382 ratings — published 2001
6 editions
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War Talk War Talk
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.09 — 330 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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The Cost of Living The Cost of Living
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.02 — 260 ratings — published 1999
5 editions
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The Algebra of Infinite Justic... The Algebra of Infinite Justice
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.10 — 172 ratings — published 2001
4 editions
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The Checkbook and the Cruise M... The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.21 — 56 ratings — published 2004
4 editions
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Come September Come September
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.60 — 43 ratings — published 2004
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Public Power in the Age of Emp... Public Power in the Age of Empire
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.17 — 47 ratings — published 2004
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How to Stop the Next War Now:... How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism
by Arundhati Roy
avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 2005
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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
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"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. THAT is their mystery and magic."
Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
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"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."
Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
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