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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Author: Arundhati Roy  

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'Astonishing' follow-up to the Booker Prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling The God of Small Things

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'Astonishing' follow-up to the Booker Prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling The God of Small Things

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'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 three rival men.When Anjum takes in an abandoned baby, it is Tilo who claims the child as her own - and so begins a tale that will sweep across twenty years, crossing the cities and forests of a teeming continent . . .

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Critic Reviews

“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

Compelling, musical, cinematic... [A] genuine poignancy and depth of emotion. Her gift is for the personal: for poetic description [and an] ability to map the complicated arithmetic of love and belonging . . . The Ministry of Utmost Happiness manages to extract hope from tragedies

The New York Times
A passionate political masterpiece Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers and Broken Republic. She lives in Delhi.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
7th June 2018
Pages
464
ISBN
9780241980767

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