--- product_id: 133231960 title: "My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction" brand: "arundhati roy" price: "£40.94" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/133231960-my-seditious-heart-collected-nonfiction store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction **Brand:** arundhati roy **Price:** £40.94 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction by arundhati roy - **How much does it cost?** £40.94 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/133231960-my-seditious-heart-collected-nonfiction) ## Best For - arundhati roy enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted arundhati roy brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction ## Images ![My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71cUwY2WIAL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars The book was in pristine condition. *by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024* This book by a very critical author, came in the best condition ---- very clean and excellently packaged. Arundhati Roy is a writer after my own heart and Bruce is a bookseller who delivers high quality works with commendable speed. I'll buy from this store again in a heartbeat. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth *by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020* An amazing author and intrepid freedom fighter! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Arundhati Roy's collected non-fiction *by G***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023* People keep trying to pin down what kind of a writer Arundhati Roy is. She has written two imaginative and widely-read novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, but has also done a considerable amount of political non-fiction, leading her to be branded a “writer-activist.” “Sort of like a sofa-bed,” she says, and you can hear her snorting. She writes, “For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.” The subjects of her essays are, along with caste and women’s rights, the troubles in Kashmir, “nuclear bombs, Big Dams, corporate globalization, and the rising threat of communal Hindu fascism,” as well as her measuring of “the corporate-military cabal of ‘empire’ at work.” (The dams are a series of these structures in India that have resulted in massive evictions of the Adivasi population and increasing ecological disaster.) My Seditious Heart is a thousand-page omnibus bringing together pieces published in smaller volumes over the last twenty years; in them, as mentioned, she shows an extraordinary skill in guiding us in few words and pages through some terrifically complex situations, but we read them for the fire of her moral insight as well as for information. Because she deals so often with the “less pretty and more complicated” side of things—her essay “Capitalism: A Ghost Story,” for instance, is the most powerful evocation of the obscenity of corporate wealth and influence I’ve read—my first thought was to compare My Seditious Heart to the experience of reading Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States; it’s an awful lot of bad news all at one time, and as often as not can be painful reading about what she calls “this restive, despairing time.” But other comparisons struck me: “Public Power in the Age of Empire” is something you can put next to Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” and her involvement and urgency made me think of Camus’s wartime writing; Roy really earns and warrants these comparisons. The pendant to My Seditious Heart is Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. (Penguin, 2020), her nonfiction published from 2018 to 2020. In addition to the beautiful opening essay on the centrality of translation in the multilingual cultures of India, there is much on the continuing terror of the right-wing Hindutva movement, and harrowing news of the war zone that is contemporary Kashmir (“Azadi” is the Kashmiri word and battle cry for “freedom”). “The Graveyard Talks Back” is a superb piece on the uses of fiction in the time of fake news, as an action in disregard of “The Project of Unseeing.” The final essay in Azadi is on the current pandemic, and gives a right, blessed end-note: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.” We hope, we hope.--From Glenn's Book Notes --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/133231960-my-seditious-heart-collected-nonfiction](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/133231960-my-seditious-heart-collected-nonfiction) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*