THE COST OF LIVING Arundhati Roy

A scarce book on development in India by the author of the world bestsller, The God of Small Things.

This is a pocket sized book measuring 15 x 10cms.

This is an ex-library book in good, read condition: pages are clean and aging lightly; first page is torn; has the usual library markings; cover shows general library wear.

Publisher's blurb: The phenomenal success of Roy's Booker Prize winning first novel The God of Small Things (LJ 4/15/97) has metamorphosed her into an activist supporting unpopular causes. This book consists of two parts: "The Greater Common Good" attacks the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river in western India, while "The End of Imagination" denounces India's nuclear tests in May 1998. The Save the Narmada movement, a grass-roots, anti-dam movement that has been agitating for over a decade, believes that instead of being a solution to India's water and power shortages, the still-incomplete dam will cause immense distress owing to the displacement of 40 million people, the submergence of 245 villages, inequities in resettlement, and environmental disasters. Roy's polemical tract on their behalf, while not a dispassionate inquiry, raises some important questions about the real price of "development," whether in the form of big dams or bombs.

Book Details

Code: SKU947

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 161

Published: 1999 by Flamingo

ISBN: 0002571870

Postage: FREE! (Posted as a letter)

Price: AUD $7.00