{"product_id":"azadi-freedom-fascism-fiction-9781642592603","title":"Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the European Essay Prize 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom--a chasm or a bridge?--the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/strong\u003e studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/em\u003e, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and \u003cem\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written several nonfiction books, including \u003cem\u003eField Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCapitalism: A Ghost Story, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking with the Comrades\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThings That Can and Cannot Be Said \u003c\/em\u003e(with John Cusack), and \u003cem\u003eThe End of Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557378560274,"sku":"9781642592603","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea25b5cf-6351-401f-a204-fa5a4059c865.jpg?v=1731780833","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/azadi-freedom-fascism-fiction-9781642592603","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}