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Authors: John; Arundhati; Cusack Roy
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About the Authors
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John Cusack is a writer, actor, filmmaker, and board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel
The God of Small Things
, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into forty languages worldwide. She has written several nonfiction books, including
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
and
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
, both published by Haymarket Books.
Also by Arundhati Roy
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.
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Field Notes on Democracy
tracks the fault lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.
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The End of Imagination
brings together five of Arundhati Roy's acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.
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It was August Spies, one of the Martyrs who was targeted for being an immigrant and an anarchist, who predicted the battles being fought to this day. “If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement,” Spies told the judge, “then hang us. Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand.”
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