Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy de Arundhati Roy - 2010-01-01

Penguin, 02/04/2010. Paperback. Used; Very Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

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Penguin, 2009. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 256 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, 2009. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean and minimal reading creases. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Razor-sharp, passionate' Sunday Times 'The essays in Listening to Grasshoppers are hand grenades' Observer Could it be that democracy, the sacred answer to our short-term hopes and prayers, the protector of our individual freedoms and nurturer of our avaricious dreams, will turn out to be the endgame for the human race? In eleven powerful, and often shocking, linked essays, Booker-prize winning novelist Arundhati Roy examines democracy's greatest experiment - India - and shows how the West's rose-tinted view often refuses to acknowledge a dark underbelly of corruption, lies and mass murder.… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? This title provides an exploration of the political picture in India. It shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal ec

Penguin, 2010. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 7.76x5.12x0.47 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? This title provides an exploration of the political picture in India. It shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways.

Chicago.: Haymarket Books.. 2009.. Map, 253pp, index, sources, notes, glossary, dustjacket spine slightly sunned, a very good hardback copy. 19.8 x 14.8cm. "Could it be that democracy, the sacred answer to our short-term hopes and prayers, the protector of our individual freedoms and nurturer of our avaricious dreams, will turn out to be the endgame for the human race? In eleven powerful, and often shocking, linked essays, Booker-prize winning novelist Arundhati Roy examines democracy's greatest experiment – India – and shows how the West's rose-tinted view often refuses to acknowledge a dark underbelly of corruption, lies and mass murder." (Publisher's description). .

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