The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 445 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: 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. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people whove known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as though they have only just met. Here is a cast of unforgettable characters caught up in the tide of history. Told with a whisper, with a shout, with tears and with laughter, 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. About the Author Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997, and two collections of essays: The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Persons Guide to Empire. She lives in New Delhi, India Industry Reviews She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has been ten years in the making * Daily Mail *Roys second novel proves as remarkable as her first * Financial Times *A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion * Washington Post *A humane, engaged near-fairy tale that soon turns dark - full of characters and their meetings, accidental and orchestrated alike to find, yes, that utmost happiness of which the title speaks * Kirkus (starred review) *An author worth waiting two decades for * Financial Times *Ambitious, original, and haunting. A novel [that] fuses tenderness and brutality, mythic resonance and the stuff of headlines . . .essential to Roys vision of a bewilderingly beautiful, contradictory, and broken world * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. A tale of suffering, sacrifice and transcendence-an entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic -- Donna Seaman * Booklist (starred review) *The Ministry of Utmost Happiness confirms Roys 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 Roys 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 *This intimate epic about India over the past two decades is superb: political but never preachy; heartfelt yet ironic; precisely poetic * Daily Telegraph *Arguably the biggest publishing event of the year * Financial Times *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. Its heartening when writers live up to the hyperbole that surrounds them * Hirsh Sawhney *A kaleidoscopic story about the struggle for Kashmirs independence * Washington Post *A sprawling, kaleidoscopic fable about love and resistance in modern India * The Guardian *The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Things * Penguin *

ISBN: 9780241303979