The End of Imagination
<b>Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and “one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation” (<i>The Washington Post</i>).</b><br />  <br /> With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book <i>The Cost of Living</i>—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel <i>The God of Small Things</i>—in 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. <i>The End of Imagination</i> also includes her nonfiction works <i>Power Politics</i>, <i>War Talk</i>, <i>Public Power in the Age of Empire</i>, and <i>An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire</i>, 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.<br />  <br /><b>Praise for Arundhati Roy</b><br />  <br /> “The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award<br />  <br /> “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 <i>Political Awakenings</i> and <i>Indispensable Zinn</i><br />  <br /> “Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness. And in these extraordinary essays—which are clarions for justice, for witness, for a true humanity—Roy is at her absolute best.” —Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i><br />  <br /> “One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” —Naomi Klein, author of <i>No Is Not Enough</i> and <i>The Battle For Paradise</i><br />  <br /> “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 <i>Hopes and Prospects</i><br />  <br /> “India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence.” —<i>The New York Times</i>