Award-winning author, political activist, and one of the bravest women of our time: Moved by the onslaught of memories and emotions triggered by her mother's death, Arundhati Roy tells the deeply moving and sometimes disturbing story of her own life in 'My Refuge and My Storm'. An intimate, meaningful, and sensitively told look at childhood and the present, at inherited resilience and the realities of life in India. And a story of siblings who unite against maternal violence, and of a young woman who breaks free to become one of the most fearless voices of our time. 'My mother, my gangster, will live on in these pages. She was my refuge and my storm.' Arundhati Roy tells her story. Over 8 million copies of 'The God of Small Things' have been sold worldwide. For readers of Annie Ernaux and Siri Hustvedt. Biography (Arundhati Roy) Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 and lives in New Delhi. She studied architecture, is an award-winning screenwriter, and achieved international success with her novel "The God of Small Things." Since then, she has dedicated herself to political and social activism, for which she has received, among other awards, the Grand Prize of the World Academy of Cultures. New product