Mother Mary Comes to Me

De: Arundhati Roy

Narrado por: Arundhati Roy

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize

One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street Journal) from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.

In this, her first work of memoir, Arundhati Roy writes, “Perhaps even more than a daughter mourning the passing of her mother, I mourn her as a writer who has lost her most enthralling subject.”

Mother Mary Comes to Me, is an intimate chronicle, “full of precise imagery and blistering emotional intelligence” (The Washington Post), of the relationship between two women, a school teacher and a writer, who happen to be mother and daughter. Roy writes with a novelist’s unsettling ability to be inside her own story as well as outside it, simultaneously child and adult, attached and detached, protagonist and narrator. She describes how she came to be the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

“Heart-smashed” by Mary’s death, yet puzzled and “more than a little ashamed” by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, “not because I didn’t love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her.”

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me “builds worlds that are revolutionary, made from the darkness that she spins into purpose” (The New Republic). An ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir like no other.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This haunting and tender memoir is an insightful exploration of a mother-daughter relationship and India’s culture."

Story, Language, Politics and Spirit.

Gorgeous Story, Narration, Spiritual and Political Economy. She is brilliant and totally human. I am honored to read her.

You can’t stop listening till it ends

A very well-written book that gets you so involved in it that you can stop till the end.

A Masterpiece No Less

Such a touching memoir that only an honest, courageous and brilliant writer like Arundhati Roy can write.

Her complicated relationship with her mother, her moving stories about writing her two dazzling novels “The God of Small Things” & “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” and her brave stands against her country’s nationalists, are but a few glimpses of this Masterpiece ✍🏾📖

Beautiful reading

Beautiful life story, Mary Roy is extraordinary and her daughter tells it beautifully . The reading is excellent - sentimental, sweet but serious too. Loved every second of it.

Beautiful

One of my favorite authors. So glad she read it too. I loved every minute of this!