{"product_id":"mother-mary-comes-to-me","title":"Mother Mary Comes To Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArundhati Roy s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as my shelter and my storm .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDistraught and even a little ashamed at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle unique and simultaneously universal, of the author s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Mary Comes to Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace a memoir like no other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Large Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: UK, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: Penguin Books\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: NA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9780241761724\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arundhati Roy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56629136064843,"sku":null,"price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9780241761724.jpg?v=1772035234","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/mother-mary-comes-to-me","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}