by Arundhati Roy · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724124490
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«Pelo bem comum» is the non-fiction essay by Arundhati Roy, published by Edições Asa in paperback (94 pages, in Portuguese).
Non-fiction essay on the Sardar Sarovar hydroelectric project, a large dam on the Narmada River (India). Arundhati Roy denounces the social and environmental consequences of the megaproject, the displacement of thousands of people, and questions the concept of progress and the supposed common good that justifies it.
Originally published in 1999 as «The greater common good», this 2001 Portuguese edition is translated by Teresa Casal.
For fans of Arundhati Roy, author of «El dios de las pequeñas cosas», and readers of social essays on India and the environment.
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.
