Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy - Couverture rigide

Roy, Arundhati

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241144620 ISBN 13 : 9780241144626

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 256 pp, infrequent notes in pencil throughout

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?'Combining brilliant insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is Arundhati Roy's essential exploration of the political picture in India today. In these essays she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, and ending with an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai, Listening to Grasshoppers tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious future and, along the way, asks fundamental questions about democracy itself - a political system that has, by virtue of being considered 'the best available option', been put beyond doubt and correction.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997, and two collections of essays: The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. She lives in New Delhi, India.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0241144620
• ISBN 13: 9780241144626
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304