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The Cost of Living 

The Greater Common Good and the End of Imagination 

by

Arundhati Roy

The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and the End of Imagination

(1999)
A non fiction book by

Arundhati Roy

 

This text is Arundhati Roy's tale of governmental (and international-agency) arrogance, high-handedness, corruption and idiocy. The Narmada Valley in north-western India is home to 25 million people (i.e. half the population of Britain), and since the 1970s successive federal and state governments have been intent on forcibly evicting these peoplea series of giant dams that will, notionally, allow irrigation to bri ng water to those who need it in the region's cities, allow the land to bear different crops and improve the region's economy.
 
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Hardback Editions

October 1999 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1417709715Title: Cost of Living (Modern Library)
Author(s): Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 1-4177-0971-5 / 978-1-4177-0971-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: San Val
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Paperback Editions

November 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0002571870Title: The Cost of Living: The Greater Common Good and The End of Imagination
Author(s): Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 0-00-257187-0 / 978-0-00-257187-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Flamingo
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October 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0375756140Title: The Cost of Living
Author(s): Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 0-375-75614-0 / 978-0-375-75614-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Modern Library
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October 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679310371Title: The Cost of Living
Author(s): Arundhati Roy
ISBN: 0-679-31037-1 / 978-0-679-31037-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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