Description
Description
«Una novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Arundhati Roy es una cazadora de historias de vida».--Javier del Pino, Cadena SER
Destrozada por la muerte de su madre y, al mismo tiempo, desconcertada y «más que un poco avergonzada» por la intensidad de su reacción, Arundhati Roy comenzó a escribir estas memorias en un intento de comprender sus sentimientos hacia la madre de la que huyó a los dieciocho años, «no porque no la amara, sino para poder seguir amándola». Así empieza esta historia asombrosa, el libro que Roy lleva «escribiendo toda la vida», un texto radicalmente honesto, divertido y profundamente conmovedor. Con la amplitud, el alcance y la profundidad de novelas tan icónicas como El dios de las pequeñas cosas, este libro es un canto a la libertad y un homenaje al amor espinoso, un último abrazo entre madre e hija. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the list of the best 50 books of 2025 by Babelia Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award on Biography Amazon Editors' Best Book 2025 New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2025 Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati's life both as a woman and a writer. Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary's death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author's journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--a memoir like no other.
About the Author
About the Author
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
«Arundhati Roy tiene maneras suaves y voz dulce con las que expone opiniones contundentes».
Javier Martín del Barrio, Babelia
«Novelista de finísima sensibilidad. Es cazadora de historias de vida».
Javier del Pino, Cadena SER
«Su beligeranciaevoca el activismo político de Saramago y las opiniones intempestivas de Handke».
Rafael Narbona, El Cultural
«La respeto profundamente. Gracias a ella hemos podido conocer realidades que de otro modo hubieran pasado realmente desapercibidas».
Chantal Maillard
«Sentida, poética, íntima, con generosas dosis de humor irónico La intensidad de la escritura de Roy lo mucho que le importa la gente te impele a concentrarte».
The Daily Telegraph
«Roy se suma a Dickens, Naipaul, García Márquez y Rushdie en su compasión constante, su magia a la hora de contar historias y su agudo ingenio».
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