The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness (Hb)

Author: Arundhati Roy

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  • : $49.99 AUD
  • : 9780241303979
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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  • : June 2017
  • : 209mm X 142mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : June 2017
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Barcode 9780241303979
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Description

A monumental new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things, to be published on the 20th anniversary of that landmark book 'How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.' In a city graveyard a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk a baby appears quite suddenly, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, watched over by a small owl, a lone woman feeds a baby gecko dead. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people who've known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as though they have only just met. Arundhati Roy's new novel gives us a glorious cast of unforgettable characters, caught up in the tide of history, each in search of a place of safety. Told with a whisper, with a shout, with tears and with a laugh, it is a love story and a provocation. Its heroes, present and departed, human and animal, have been broken by the world we live in and then mended by love. And for this reason, they will never surrender.

Reviews

Publisher's description. A monumental new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things. A richly woven tale of love in the most improbable circumstances. A book about souls, past and present, human and animal, that have been broken by the world we live in and mended by love. Penguin

Author description

Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her political writings include The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi and her new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness will be published by Hamish Hamilton in June 2017.