{"product_id":"ministry-of-utmost-happiness-book-arundhati-roy-9780241303986","title":"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent - unlike anything I've read in years. An absolutely dazzling, original, and ultimately profound novel... A masterpiece. Very few writers can write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence. Arundhati Roy is properly special. We should be grateful to have her among us.' \u003c\/b\u003eMirza Waheed, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Gold Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A great tempest of a novel... \u003c\/b\u003ewhich will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnjum, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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