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Cost of Living

(Modern Library)

By Arundhati Roy

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From the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government's
disregard for the individual.

In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassionate but unrelenting eye on one famiContinue

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The Cost Of Living Arundhati Roy Flamingo £5.99, pp161 Buy it at BOL Arundhati Roy was every publisher's dream: a beautiful, articulate Indian writer whose first novel, The God of Small Things, became a surprise bestseller, went on to win the 1997 Bo ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Arundhati Roy 以《微物之神》揚名文壇。這本The Cost of Living ，收錄兩篇時事評論，雖非說部，卻與 Roy 的成名作相互呼應。兩本作品，一以貫之的思維是批評 “國家神話、種族中心主義這樽「大神」” （《後殖民文學：從邊緣到中心》，頁341）。或者，以Roy 自己的話：We have to fight specific wars in specific ways. Who knows, perhaps that’s what the twenty-first century has in store for us. The dismantling of the b ... (continue)

Arundhati Roy 以《微物之神》揚名文壇。這本The Cost of Living ，收錄兩篇時事評論，雖非說部，卻與 Roy 的成名作相互呼應。兩本作品，一以貫之的思維是批評 “國家神話、種族中心主義這樽「大神」” （《後殖民文學：從邊緣到中心》，頁341）。或者，以Roy 自己的話：We have to fight specific wars in specific ways. Who knows, perhaps that’s what the twenty-first century has in store for us. The dismantling of the big. Big bombs, big dams, big ideologies . . . big mistakes. Perhaps it will be the century of the small. Perhaps right now, this very minute, there is a small god up in heaven readying herself for us (12).

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