Praise for Arundhati Roy

“The world has never had to face such global confusion. Only in facing it can we make sense of what we have to do. And this is precisely what Arundhati Roy does. She makes sense of what we have to do. Thereby offering an example. An example of what? Of being fully alive in our world, such as it is, and of getting close to and listening to those for whom this world has become intolerable.” 
—John Berger

“Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” 
—Naomi Klein

“Arundhati 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 Chomsky

“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” 
—Howard Zinn

“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time...courageous, visionary, and erudite.”
 —Cornel West

“Her incomparable divining rod picks up the cries of the despised and the oppressed in the most remote corners of the globe; it even picks up the cries of rivers and fish. With an unfailing charm and wit that makes her writing constantly enlivening to read, her analysis of our grotesque world is savagely clear, and yet her anger never obscures her awareness that beauty, joy, and pleasure can potentially be part of the life of human beings.” 
—Wallace Shawn

“[Roy is] an electrifying political essayist.... So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons...that her essays are as uplifting as they are galvanizing.” 
—Booklist

“The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” 
—New York Times Book Review

“Roy weaves her bold and startling narrative in sequences of luminously rendered scenes—remarkable.”
—The Globe and Mail 

“A compelling tale of forbidden love and its catastrophic consequences, wonderfully vivid—Arundhati Roy's novel has a magic and mystery all its own.” 
—Toronto Star