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The God of Small Things
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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This extraordinarily accomplished debut novel is a brilliantly plotted story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on the tragic decline of an Indian family....
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Worthy Booker winner!
- By Saman on 08-10-17
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The God of Small Things
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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My Seditious Heart
- Collected Nonfiction
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
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My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....
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real face of secular india
- By bilal on 11-26-19
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My Seditious Heart
- Collected Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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The chant of Azadi! - Urdu for "freedom!" - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically it has also become the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism....
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Eye opener to all the fascist practices in India
- By Samanvitha on 02-02-21
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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The God of Small Things
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India's vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns....
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A different type of listening experience
- By Doc PNW on 07-11-20
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The God of Small Things
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-15-16
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- A Novel
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters....
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Author narration does not work for me
- By Amazon Customer on 06-18-17
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- Conversations with David Barsamian
- By: Arundhati Roy, Davi Barsamian - editor, Naomi Klein - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire touches on United States empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more.
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- Conversations with David Barsamian
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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Capitalism
- A Ghost Story
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Vaishali Sharma
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Capitalism examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people....
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Courageous Reporting
- By Doug - Audible on 03-31-15
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Capitalism
- A Ghost Story
- Narrated by: Vaishali Sharma
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-21-14
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves....
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beautifully written , a simple yet storming story
- By Abhigyan on 08-08-17
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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My Seditious Heart
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....
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My Seditious Heart
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 36 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
- Essays and Conversations
- By: Arundhati Roy, John Cusack
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Jim Meskimen
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg traveled to Moscow to meet with Edward Snowden....
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Very Misleading
- By Tinkerbellstwin on 10-16-20
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Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
- Essays and Conversations
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Jim Meskimen
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of a writer's desk....
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Eye opening narrative on Indian Politics
- By Mann on 11-17-20
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-03-20
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- By: Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein - afterword
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart comes a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back....
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint (Marathi Edition)
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Neshma Chemburkar
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism....
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The Doctor and the Saint (Marathi Edition)
- Narrated by: Neshma Chemburkar
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-18-23
- Language: Hindi
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Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Gabriele Blum
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Auf einem Friedhof in der Altstadt von Delhi wird ein handgeknüpfter Teppich ausgerollt. Auf einem Bürgersteig taucht plötzlich ein Baby auf...
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Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks
- Narrated by: Gabriele Blum
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-10-17
- Language: German
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Ministeriet for den ypperste lykke
- By: Arundhati Roy, Harvey Macaulay, Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild
- Narrated by: Maria Garde
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Tyve år efter De små tings gud, hendes brag af en debutroman, er Arundhati Roy tilbage med en kraftpræstation af en roman. En storslået, gribende...
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Ministeriet for den ypperste lykke
- Narrated by: Maria Garde
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-01-18
- Language: Danish
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The God of Small Things
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Diana Quick
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize....
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The God of Small Things
- Narrated by: Diana Quick
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-07-12
- Language: English
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Der Gott der kleinen Dinge
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Gabriele Blum
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Die kleinen Dinge, das sind der Streifen auf einem Wespenflügel, roter Nagellack auf den Fingern eines Schreiners, die geballte Faust auf...
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Der Gott der kleinen Dinge
- Narrated by: Gabriele Blum
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-24-19
- Language: German
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Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Anjum, who used to be Aftab, runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken, and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who, although she is loved by three men, lives in a "country of her own skin"....
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Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-31-20
- Language: English
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
- By: Julian Aguon, Arundhati Roy - introduction
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples....
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-15-22
- Language: English
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