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Article: PAPERBACKS; Arundhati Roy condemns India's nuclear race, dam building; Essay by Booker Prize-winner calls bomb `the final act of betrayal' to citizens.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 23, 2000
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Arundhati Roy became the toast of the literary world when her first novel, "The God of Small Things," spent more than nine months on the New York Times best-seller list and won England's 1997 Booker Prize. Now, her first book of nonfiction puts her back in the spotlight, this time as the voice of India's vast silent majority.
Roy's targets in "The Cost of Living" (Modern Library, 126 pages, $11.95) are two of her country's great claims to progress: massive dam projects and nuclear weapons. The first of the book's two essays, "The End of Imagination," is a bitter attack on the belief that the bomb is any measure of progress, not only for India but any country. ...
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Article: Column one: Arundhati Roy damns the God of Large ...
The Independent - London;
January 12, 2000 ;
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... ... environmentalists over the construction of a river dam, Arundhati Roy, the Indian Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things ... But work has continued up to the present. Arundhati Roy, who followed her novel with a pamphlet denouncing ...
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