Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy (Penguin Random House) east germany Klara Kayser

Klara Kayser

Draws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist group to advocate the undermining of capitalism through art

They are declarations: We were here

Denn nur wer die Gefühlswelten und Debatten vergangener Faschismen studiert

adrift – becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city

Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy (Penguin Random House) east germany Klara KayserArundhati Roys 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. Distraught 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