The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.' 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."
Arundhati Roy wowed critics with her writing debut, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published several collections of essays The Cost of Living, Power Politics and most recently War Talk. Ms. Roy is an outspoken critic of India's nuclear weapons testing, controversial environmental issues and the US war on terrorism. Howard Zinn is the author of the best-selling People's History Of The United States (over a million copies sold), and numerous other works of history, politics, and biography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670089635 |
| ISBN 10 | 067008963X |
| Title | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
| Author | Arundhati Roy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House India |
| Year published | 2017-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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