Walking with the Comrades-Fast Shipping

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From the award-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India

In this fiercely reported work of nonfiction, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roydraws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement inIndia to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in theforests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indiangovernment is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a warundocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporationseager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. Roy takesreaders to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chroniclingher months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. Indocumenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the much largerquestion of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societiesexisting outside of its colossal control.

“A riveting account . . . a necessary book by one of India’s most distinctive voices.” –Washington Post