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Set across several decades, mostly in Delhi and Kashmir, Arundhati Roy's second novel came two decades after The God of Small Things, her first. It opens with Anjum, who used to be Aftab, spreading a worn Persian carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. Another thread follows Tilo, a rebellious architect, and the men who loved her, among them Musa and a former suitor who is now an intelligence officer and her landlord. Roy sets these lives against violent episodes of modern Indian history, including the Bhopal disaster, the Godhra train burning, land reform that dispossessed poor farmers, and the insurgency in Kashmir. The novel was published in 2017.
Barclays Africa chief executive Maria Ramos chose it for her summer reading in a roundup of books CEOs planned to read.
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Maria Ramos (CEO/ Barclays Africa)
Ramos will take the summer to examine some of the questions weighing more heavily on humankind as we contemplate our collective future: what happens when we can write our own genetic codes, and what happens when we create technology that is meaningfully more intelligent than us.
- The Gene: An Intimate History—Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies—Nick Bostrom
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—Arundhati Roy
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