The End of Imagination

Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and “one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation” ( The Washington Post ).   With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living —published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things —in which she forcefully condemned India’s nuclear tests and its construction of enormous dam projects that continue to d