Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.
Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary’s death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.
With the scale, sweep and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity and warmth of her essays, this book is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace – a memoir like no other.
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Publisher : Penguin Hamish Hamilton (28 August 2025)
Language : English
Hardcover : 376 pages
ISBN-10 : 0143473069
ISBN-13 : 978-0143473060
Item Weight : 593 g
Dimensions : 13.5 x 3.2 x 21.6 cm
Country of Origin : India
Net Quantity : 593.00 Grams
Best Sellers Rank: #1,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9 in True Accounts (Books) #9 in Diaries & Journals #30 in Biographies & Autobiographies (Books)
