'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.'

In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. Told with a whisper, with a shout, with tears and with laughter, it is a love story and a provocation.

wenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roys complete non-fiction.

Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time Naomi Klein

The world has never had to face such global confusion. Only in facing it can we make sense of what we have to do. And this is precisely what Arundhati Roy does. She makes sense of what we have to do. Thereby offering an example. An example of what? Of being fully alive in our world, such as it is, and of getting close to and listening to those for whom this world has become intolerable John...