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Liked It Rated 5 stars “Arundhati Roy gives meaning to scattered words that lie dormant under the weight of fear and anger in a chaotic world. Her gut-wrenching imagery is provoking and real, even for those who have not witnessed communal strife. What guts to use the power of language and transcend the uselessness of a...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  “Indian writer Roy's debut novel, The God of Small Things (1997), met with resounding critical acclaim and won the Booker Prize, but this writer of conscience has turned her attention to the real world ever since, turning herself into an electrifying political essayist. In her third volume of nonfiction, she valiantly addresses questions of power and its abuse, and powerlessness and its transformation via dissent and activism into a force for positive change. Roy dissects her country's violent religious conflicts, celebrates and mourns the seemingly lost legacy of Gandhi, and condemns India's gargantuan and environmentally unsound hydroelectric dam projects and the concomitant displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. She also discusses with invaluable clarity the mess in the Middle East, and presents razor-sharp interpretations of the U.S. government's foreign policy and the insidiouinfluence of mega-corporations. So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons, assaults against the environment, and the endless suffering of the poor that her essay are as uplifting as they are galvanizing. ”

  Oregon Action Medford wrote this review Tuesday, March 18 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “I would have to flip through this book to remember exactly what I liked about it, but I do remember that it's one of the books that contributed to making Arundhati Roy one of my favorite authors.”

  footnotefetish wrote this review Monday, November 26 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “I like Arundhati's frank, fearless voice in this book, although bordering on eccentricity at times. I'm with her on her take on Bush and his lackeys.”

  Sunita Y wrote this review Thursday, November 15 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Arundhati Roy gives meaning to scattered words that lie dormant under the weight of fear and anger in a chaotic world. Her gut-wrenching imagery is provoking and real, even for those who have not witnessed communal strife. What guts to use the power of language and transcend the uselessness of a single letter to portray a people's reality. She does not present solutions and you may not agree with her, but she will make you think.”

  NK wrote this review Tuesday, June 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No