AZADI
  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241996782
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $14.99

AZADI

Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

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1 Nov 2022
EBook
3 Sep 2020
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3 Sep 2020
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With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time

'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes round the streets of the country that most Kashmiris view as their coloniser. What lies between the silence of one street and the sound of the other? Is it a chasm, or could it become a bridge?

In this series of penetrating essays on politics and literature, Arundhati Roy examines this question, challenging us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. Azadi, she warns, hangs in the balance for us all.
  • Published: 1 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241996782
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $14.99
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About the authors

Arundhati Roy

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

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Praise for AZADI

[A] startling collection of essays . . . The passion and beauty of her voice is unabated . . . Azadi is the outcome of a life of writing from the frontline of solidarity and humanism, and from a writer who is perhaps only now reaching the height of her literary powers

Guardian

An eloquent and scorching indictment of the growing authoritarianism of Hindu nationalism . . . it is a tour de force

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Azadi is a deeply-committed literary artist’s vision of what is wrong with our world today and a heartfelt appeal to join together to try and heal the wounds before it is too late

Telegraph India
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