Roy, A: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Name: Roy, A: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
SKU: 9780241303986-V
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By Arundhati Roy

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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, 'normalcy' is declared. Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope. For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 464
Release Date:: 2017-06-06
Publication Date:: 2017-06-06
Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0241303982
ISBN13:: 9780241303986
Weight:: 505 g
Height:: 14.1 cm
Width:: 20.8 cm
Thickness:: 3.8 cm

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