Arundhati Roy: Mother Mary comes to me, Hamish Hamilton, 9780241761724, large format paperback, 

( deutsche Ausgabe: Meine Zuflucht und mein Sturm)

Arundhati Roy's memoir is one of the best and most intense I have ever read. 

What an incredible life she has lived, dominated by a formidable mother whose feelings, cruelty and reactions towards her blew between hot and cold at any given moment throughout her entire life, shaping the person she became. It is such an intimate, disturbing, often funny portrait of a life, her success as a writer, her relationships, her education and family life in India, her mother's death and her political involvements which put her into some dangerous situations.  I was blown away by the account of her complicated, rich life,  an astonishing, extraordinary piece of writing. On my shelf of favorite books, a modern classic.