The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
$24.76
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2018
Summary
‘Astonishing’ follow-up to the Booker Prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling The God of Small Things.
‘At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke …’
Anjum lives in a graveyard, gathering around her the misfits and outcasts of Delhi’s bustling streets. Tilo is a Kashmiri woman, brilliant and beautiful, fated to be loved by th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241980767 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241980763 |
| Author: | Arundhati Roy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has been ten years in the making
She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has been ten years in the making * Daily Mail *Roy’s second novel proves as remarkable as her first * Financial Times *The Ministry of Utmost Happiness confirms Roy’s status as a writer of delicate human dramas that also touch on some of the largest questions of the day. It is the novel as intimate epic. Expect to see it on every prize shortlist this year * The Times *Heartfelt, poetic, intimate, laced with ironic humour…The intensity of Roy’s writing - the sheer amount she cares about these people - compels you to concentrate…This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India * Daily Telegraph *Teems with human drama, contains a vivid cast of characters and offers an evocative, searing portrait of modern India * Tatler *A beautiful and grotesque portrait of modern India and the world beyond. Take your time over it, just as the author did * Good Housekeeping *Fantastic. The novel is unflinchingly critical of power, and yet she empowers her underdog characters to persevere, leaving readers with a few droplets of much-needed hope. It’s heartening when writers live up to the hyperbole that surrounds them * Hirsh Sawhney *A kaleidoscopic story about the struggle for Kashmir’s independence * Washington Post *A sprawling, kaleidoscopic fable about love and resistance in modern India * The Guardian *
The follow-up we’ve been longing for - a poetic, densely populated contemporary novel in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy. From its beginning, one is swept up in the story… With her exquisite and dynamic storytelling, Roy balances scenes of suffering and corruption with humour and transcendence
* Vogue *About The Author
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.
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