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War Talk | Praise
“The fierceness with which she loves humanity moves my heart.”
—Alice Walker
“A slim, must-read collection of powerful essays by the author of the Booker
Prize-winning The God of Small Things that questions everything from
nuclear power, the so-called war against terror and the new imperialism. She
reveals how the Indian prime minister promoted his poems on MTV while Muslims
were massacred enmasse in Guajarat, and sagely insists that post-9/11 U.S. rhetoric
is merely a thinly disguised ‘canny recruitment drive for a misconceived, dangerous
war.’”
—AsianWeek
“The book is permeated by both Roy’s eloquent outrage at the crimes of the
powerful, and a belief in the capacity of ordinary people to create a different
kind of future.”
—Socialist Worker
“[Roy] is unequivocal in her criticism of U.S. foreign policy, but her zeal
is illuminated by an abiding faith that there simply must be an alternative.”
—Village Voice
“Those looking for dry analysis of the world should look elsewhere, but for
anyone looking for a voice of sanity, passion, and compassion against the Bushes
of the world, reading War Talk is a great way to spend a couple of hours.”
—International Socialist Review
“Big events seen from the keyhole of daily life. Arundhati Roy has an exceptional
talent to turn facts, names, and even numbers into flesh and land. A book to
be read? A breathing to be felt.”
—Eduardo Galeano, author of Open Veins of Latin America
“Reading Arundhati Roy is how the peace movement arms itself. She turns our
grief and rage into courage.”
—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
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