Audiobooks by Arundhati Roy

[Spanish] - El dios de las pequeñas cosas

"Uno de los grandes fenómenos editoriales de las últimas décadas. Un debut que ganó el Booker, traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas y con ocho millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. «Una magia y una calidez que no he vuelto a encontrar en ningún libro». Laura Ferrero, ABC Cultural «La calidad del libro de Arundhati Roy es tan extraordinaria al mismo tiempo tan intenso moralmente y de tal riqueza imaginativa que el lector permanece total y absolutamente atrapado hasta el final». The New York Times Book Review Debut de una desconocida Arundhati Roy en el año 1997, El dios de las pequeñas cosas ha sido uno de los grandes fenómenos editoriales de las últimas décadas. Ganador del Premio Booker y traducido a más de cuarenta lenguas, es ya un clásico contemporáneo con ocho millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Estha y Rahel, dos gemelos del sur de la India, descubren muy pronto que el amor —como las leyes que rigen sus vidas— tiene límites inquebrantables. La visita de su prima Sophie, el regreso de su madre y un gesto fuera de lugar desencadenan una serie de acontecimientos cuyos ecos resuenan años después transformando para siempre su mundo. Esta saga familiar comparada con obras de Gabriel García Márquez y de Salman Rusdie es mucho más que el retrato de una familia. Es una joya narrativa sobre el deseo y la pérdida, la infancia y sus fracturas, el amor y la justicia. Una novela llena de belleza sobre las decisiones que cambian una vida entera. La crítica ha dicho: «El dios de las pequeñas cosas está empapado de colores y sensaciones, ensartadas con las descripciones de un país lleno de matices y marcado por el machismo de la sociedad». Belen Ginart, El País «Una trama compleja y ambiciosa, impulsada por una prosa barroca y exuberante». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «La calidad del libro de Arundhati Roy es tan extraordinaria al mismo tiempo tan intenso moralmente y de tal riqueza imaginativa que el lector permanece total y absolutamente atrapado hasta el final». The New York Times Book Review «Un libro que nos acerca al terror y la belleza y nos proporciona una omnisciente visión de la India moderna... Una novela de verdadera ambición debe crear su propio lenguaje y ésta lo hace. Un debut deslumbrante». John Updike «Roy —referente para intelectuales occidentales como Judith Butler o Naomi Klein— encarna la figura de la intelectual radical, a la vez global y muy arraigada en la India, su civilización y su universo de referencias». Marc Bassets, El País"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Beatriz Melgares (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Mi refugio y mi tormenta

"El esperado regreso de una autora 'superlativamente brillante' (The New York Review of Books). La premio Booker por El dios de las pequeñas cosas firma un poderoso memoir sobre su madre, un acontecimiento editorial mundial. «Una de las pensadoras más lúcidas y originales de nuestro tiempo». Naomi Klein «Una novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Arundhati Roy es una cazadora de historias de vida». Javier del Pino, Cadena SER Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y 'más que un poco avergonzada' por la intensidad de su reacción, Arundhati Roy comenzó a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huyó a los dieciocho años, 'no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir amándola'. Así empieza esta historia asombrosa, que Roy lleva 'escribiendo toda la vida', un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. Con la amplitud, el alcance y la profundidad de novelas tan icónicas como El dios de las pequeñas cosas, este audiolibro es un canto a la libertad y un homenaje al amor espinoso, un último abrazo entre madre e hija. La crítica ha dicho: «Las memorias cristalizan un tema que recorre la obra de Roy: cómo la política y el orden social moldean, y a menudo distorsionan, nuestra capacidad de amar y sentir empatía. [...] Por encima de todo, revelan la forma de una relación: desde el momento en que Roy pudo caminar, ya marchaba al paso de una formidable rebelde». The New Yorker ('Los mejores libros de 2025 hasta ahora') «Estas memorias confirman la singularidad de su voz: una prosa que avanza en ráfagas, entre imágenes casi oníricas. [ ] Tan conmovedor como implacable, en Mi refugio y mi tormenta late la idea de que la escritura es una forma de amor torcido, de fidelidad imposible». Babelia «Dedique algunas horas de estos días a visitar sus páginas. No se arrepentirá». Jorge Zepeda Patterson, El País «Las memorias de Arundhati Roy desatarán algo primario en ti. [...] Un libro de parentesco: entre una madre testaruda y su inflexible hija; entre una autora brutalmente honesta y sus ávidos lectores». Sadaf Shaikh, Vogue «Un libro de memorias que bascula sobre la complicada relación que tuvo siempre con su madre. [ ] Ese cordón umbilical que todavía la unía con ella estaba hecho casi a partes iguales de terror y de admiración, de rencor y cariño». Jacobo de Arce, El Periódico «Roy es una mujer incómoda en un mundo en que la incomodidad se paga. [ ] Siempre vio la palabra como un animal salvaje que debía cazar y del que debía beber la sangre si quería convertirse en escritora». Sara Polo, El Mundo «Sin rencor, pero con una lúcida memoria, salda cuentas con una madre de armas tomar». Lourdes Ventura, El Cultural «Arundhati Roy tiene maneras suaves y voz dulce con las que expone opiniones contundentes». Javier Martín del Barrio, Babelia «Novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Es cazadora de historias de vida». Javier del Pino, Cadena SER «La vida de Arundhati Roy fluye en estas páginas con toda su carga ambiental, pero sorteando las barreras, inexorable, y celebrando una existencia que sabe privilegiada frente al sufrimiento humano del que ella, y quienes la leemos, somos testigos diariamente en algún lugar del planeta». Isabel Carrera Suárez, La Nueva España"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Elsa Veiga (Narrator)

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Mother Mary Comes To Me: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things

"Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2026 The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other. 'Brave and absorbing' Guardian 'Beautifully written...It's a total pleasure to spend time with Arundhati Roy's mind and memory in this funny, wise, candid and perceptive memoir.' Independent, 'Book of the Month' (5 stars) 'The best piece of non-fiction she has ever written' The Telegraph © Arundhati Roy 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Arundhati Roy (Narrator)

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The Architecture of Modern Empire

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back ‘I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real…’ Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy’s words have lit a clear way through the darkness that surrounds us. Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became, she illuminates the hidden structures of modern empire like no one else, revealing their workings so that we can resist. Her subjects: war, nationalism, fundamentalism and rising fascism, turbocharged by neoliberalism and now technology. But also: truth, justice, freedom, resistance, solidarity and above all imagination – in particular the imagination to see what is in front of us, to envision another way, and to fight for it. Arundhati Roy’s voice – as distinct and compelling in conversation as in her writing – explores these themes and more in this essential collection of interviews with David Barsamian, conducted over two decades, from 2001 to the present. WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM NAOMI KLEIN ©2024 Arundhati Roy (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Jeed Saddy (Narrator)

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The God of Small Things: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

"A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel - plus bonus interview with the author Arundhati Roy's debut novel The God of Small Things took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997. It went on to sell over six million copies in 40 languages, and was named as one of the BBC's 100 'Novels That Shaped Our World' in 2019. Set in Kerala in both the present and 1969, it tells the compelling tale of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, whose lives are shattered by the 'Love Laws' that dictate 'who should be loved, and how. And how much'. As children, they are inseparable: so close, they think of themselves as one person. But when they are just seven, everything changes. A terrible tragedy occurs, and, drawn into its devastating repercussions, they are forced apart. Twenty-three years later, Rahel has moved to America and made a new life. But when she hears that Estha has been 're-returned', she travels to Ayemenem to be with her long-lost, broken brother. As painful memories come flooding back, the heartbreaking events of the twins' childhood gradually unfold, and through flashbacks and flash-forwards, the secrets of their desperately dysfunctional family are revealed... A powerful story of forbidden cross-caste love and what a community will do to protect the old ways, this enthralling, atmospheric drama stars Yasmin Wilde, Richard Sumitro and Shaheen Khan, and features a haunting soundtrack by internationally-renowned musician Nitin Sawhney. Also included is a bonus episode of Radio 4's Bookclub from 2011, in which Arundhati Roy talks to James Naughtie about what was then her only work of fiction. Taking questions from the audience, she discusses the novel's themes and symbolism, and reveals how her training as an architect helped her plan its complex, multi-layered structure. Production credits Written by Arundhati Roy Adapted by Tanika Gupta Original music by Nitin Sawhney Produced by Nadia Molinari Cast Rahel - Yasmin Wilde Estha - Richard Sumitro Young Rahel - Jatlnder Purewal Young Estha - Shakeel Ahmed Ammu - Thushani Weerasekera Velutha - Paul Bhattacharjee Sophie Mol - Poppy Rush Chacko - Vincent Ebrahim Baby Kochamma - Josephine Welcome Mammachi - Shaheen Khan Inspector - Matthew Raadrawl Vellya - Badi Uzzaman Kochu - Adlyn Ross Margaret - Slobhan Finneran First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12-23 July 2004 Bookclub: Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things With James Naughtie and Arundhati Roy Produced by Dymphna Flynn First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 2 October 2011 ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Full Cast, Paul Bhattacharjee, Richard Sumitro, Siobhan Finneran, Yasmin Wilde (Narrator)

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[Malayalam] - Azadi

"അടിച്ചമർത്തലുകളുടെ ലോകത്തിൽ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിന്റെ അർത്ഥതലങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് പുതുക്കിച്ചിന്തിക്കാൻ പ്രേരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന സ്‌ഫോടനാത്മകമായ എഴുത്ത്. ലോകം കാതോർക്കുന്ന അനുഗൃഹീത സാഹിത്യകാരിയും സാമൂഹ്യപ്രവർത്തകയുമായ അരുന്ധതി റോയിയുടെ ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ പുസ്തകം The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, Roy says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Rekha Lohithakshan (Narrator)

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[Tamil] - Chinna Vishayangalin Kadavul

"'அருந்ததி ராயின் நாவல் அவரது சொந்த வாழ்க்கையின் சாயலைக் கொண்டதாகச் சொல்லப்படுகிறது. அய்மனம் என்ற கேரள கிராமம்தான் அவருடைய சொந்த ஊர். நாவலின் கதை நடப்பதும் அய்மனத்தில்தான். இரட்டைக் குழந்தைகளான எஸ்தா என்ற எஸ்தப்பன், ராஹேல் இருவரும் ஒன்றாகப் பிறந்து பத்து வயதுவரை ஒன்றாக வளர்ந்து பெற்றோரின் மண விலக்குக் காரணமாகப் பிரிந்து விடுகிறார்கள். இருபத்தி மூன்று வருடங்களுக்குப் பிறகு மீண்டும் சந்திக்கிறார்கள். இந்த இடைவெளியில் நடக்கும் சம்பவங்கள்தாம் கதை. நாவலிலேயே குறிப்பிடப்படுவதுபோல மகத்தான கதைகள் என்பவை நீங்கள் கேட்ட, மீண்டும் கேட்க விழையும் கதைகளே. எந்த இடத்திலும் நீங்கள் உள்ளே நுழைந்து சௌகரியமாகப் பொருத்திக் கொள்ள இடமளிப்பவை. அவை உங்களை கிளர்ச்சியூட்டுவதாலும் தந்திரமான முடிவுகளாலும் ஏமாற்றுபவையல்ல. எதிர்பாராதவற்றால் உங்களை வியப்பில் ஆழ்த்துபவை அல்ல. அவை நீங்கள் வசிக்கும் வீட்டைப் போலப் பரிச்சயமானவை அல்லது உங்கள் காதலரின் வாசனையைப்போல. அவை எவ்வாறு முடியுமென்று தெரிந்திருந்தாலும் தெரியாததைரப் போலக் கேட்க வைப்பவை. தெரிந்த ஒரு கதையைத்தான் அருந்ததி ராய் இந்த நாவலில் சொல்கிறார். அதை இதுவரை தெரியாத முறையில் சொல்கிறார் என்பதுதான் இந்த நாவலின் சிறப்பம்சம். ஆங்கிலத்தில் எழுதப்படும் இந்தியக் கதைகளில் மொழி நடையாலும் சொல்லும் முறையாலும் திருப்புமுனையாகச் சொல்லப்படும் நாவல் சின்ன விஷயங்களின் கடவுள். இது மகத்தான இலக்கியப் படைப்பல்ல. ஆனால் முக்கியமான படைப்பு. இந்த நாவலின் வருகைக்குப் பிறகே உலக இலக்கியத்தில் இந்தியப் படைப்புகளுக்கு இலக்கிய மதிப்பும் சந்தை மதிப்பும் உயர்ந்திருக்கிறது."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Chithra Balasubramanian (Narrator)

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AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

"Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom - a chasm or a bridge? - the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The Coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world. © Arundhati Roy 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Arundhati Roy (Author), Shaheen Khan (Narrator)

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[Malayalam] - Kunju Karyangalude Odeythampuran

"ദേശിയതയുടെയും ജാതി - മതങ്ങളുടെയും ആവരണങ്ങളെ ഇത്ര ഫലപ്രദമായി ഭേദിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്‌ മാനവികതയുടെ നഗ്നമേനിയെ വെളിച്ചത്തുകൊണ്ടുവരുന്ന ഒരു പുസ്‌തകം വളരെ അപൂർവ്വമായി മാത്രമേ കാണുകയുള്ളു. Booker Prize winner 'God of Small Things' is a story about Esthappen and Rahel, where she throws light on the subtle and not so subtle tentacles of caste system in the Malayali Syrian Christian community, their lifestyle and communism. Esthappen and Rahel at a very young age learn horrifying truths of life, as they are tortured and blamed for every misfortune in their lives."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Sreelakshmi Jayachandran (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Gott der kleinen Dinge (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"Die kleinen Dinge, das sind der Streifen auf einem Wespenflügel, roter Nagellack auf den Fingern eines Schreiners, die geballte Faust auf einer Motorhaube. Die großen Dinge dagegen lauern unausgesprochen im Innern. Das wissen die siebenjährigen Zwillinge Rahel und Estha, und sie wissen auch, dass sich alles an einem einzigen Tag verändern kann. Und sie werden recht behalten. Als Rahel nach vielen Jahren zurückkehrt in ihr Heimatdorf im südindischen Kerala, ist nichts mehr, wie es einst war. Die Konservenfabrik der Familie verfallen, die geliebte Mutter tot, der Zwillingsbruder verstummt. Zurückgeblieben sind nur die Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit am Fluss, an die bewundernde Liebe zu Velutha, dem dunklen Angestellten ihrer Großmutter, und an einen tragischen Tag im Jahr 1969, der alles veränderte. Eine magische Geschichte vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Umbrüche Indiens."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Gabriele Blum (Narrator)

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My Seditious Heart

"Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy, read by Tania Rodrigues. My Seditious Heart 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. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defence 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. 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."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Tania Rodrigues (Narrator)

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[German] - Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"Auf einem Friedhof in der Altstadt von Delhi wird ein handgeknüpfter Teppich ausgerollt. Auf einem Bürgersteig taucht plötzlich ein Baby auf. In einem verschneiten Tal schreibt ein Vater einen Brief an seine fünfjährige Tochter über die vielen Menschen, die zu ihrer Beerdigung kamen. Im Jannat Guest House umarmen sich im Schlaf zwei Menschen, als ob sie sich eben erst getroffen hätten - aber sie kennen sich schon ein Leben lang. Erzählt mit einem Flüstern, einem Schrei, mit Freudentränen und manchmal mit einem bitteren Lachen, ist dieser Roman Liebeserklärung und Provokation zugleich."

Arundhati Roy (Author), Gabriele Blum (Narrator)

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