Author

Books by Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist. The God of Small Things, her debut novel, won the Booker Prize in 1997 and became an international bestseller. After its publication she turned primarily to political nonfiction — essays collected in The Greater Common Good, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, and Capitalism: A Ghost Story — focusing on India's dam projects, nuclear tests, caste violence, and corporate power. Her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, appeared in 2017, twenty years after the first. She lives in New Delhi.