My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

<div><div>Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete nonfiction.</div> <div> </div> <div>Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, <em>The God of Small Things</em> (1997) and <em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</em> (2017), <em>My Seditious Heart</em> 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.</div> <div> </div> <div> <div>Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Roy offers a powerful defense 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.</div> </div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels <em>The God of Small Things</em>, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and <em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</em>.</div> <div> </div>