End of Imagination

End of Imagination Synopsis

Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prizewinner and ';one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation' (The Washington Post). With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Livingpublished soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Thingsin which she forcefully condemned India's nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to displace countless people from their homes and communities. The End of Imagination also includes her nonfiction works Power Politics, War Talk, Public Power in the Age of Empire, and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, which include her widely circulated and inspiring writings on the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the need to confront corporate power, and the hollowing out of democratic institutions globally. Praise for Arundhati Roy ';The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.' Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prizewinning author and recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award ';Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.' Howard Zinn, author of Political Awakenings and Indispensable Zinn ';Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essayswhich are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanityRoy is at her absolute best.' Junot Daz, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ';One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.' Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough andThe Battle For Paradise ';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, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects ';India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence.' The New York Times