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Roy, Arundhati : War Talk

South End Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003

ISBN 0896087239

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 142 pages. Retrospective collection of essays on subject. One of the most important books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Arundhati Roy's "War Talk". Her controversial and compelling response to both the event and the subsequent rhetoric we now call 9/11. Her six essays on the implications of this tragedy, particularly that it would be used to justify imperial wars in the 21st century, were made long before President Bush and most political commentators uttered the word "Iraq". "Combines brilliant reportage with a passionate, no-holds-barred commentary. I salute both her courage and her skill" (Salman Rushdie). "Writers have proved that when they turn their backs on power and start and feel the pulse and pain of society, they become powerful. This is the power beyond power that Arundhati Roy brings forth" (Vandana Shiva). A beautiful, deceptively fragile-looking presence, she has turned herself into one of the world's most eloquent spokeswomen for the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the powerless. A close friend of fellow Indian writer Vikram Seth, Roy has become the effective polemicist-essayist counterpart of novelist Seth. She once said that she had probably just one novel in her, and that she had already written it ("The God of Small Things", published in 1997). She also became a literary sensation because of it, which stalled rather than facilitated her second novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", not published until twenty years later, in 2017. An absolute "must-have" title for Arundhati Roy collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Arundhati Roy. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Unlike her recent signature, this is vintage, signed in full instead of abbreviated. Roy was the star presenter of The Asia Society's "Chindia Dialogues" [China-India Dialogues] , during which event her signature was obtained. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 for "The God of Small Things". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ARUNDHATI ROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0896087239.

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