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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy

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#1812 of 8,085 books · #865 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2017). Also longlisted for 1 other award.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, longlisted for the Carnegie 2018, and was a The Sunday Times and The New York Times bestseller. 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... So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a 'country of her own skin'. When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight...

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9783839815878
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Identity and belongingPolitical turmoil in IndiaFound family among the marginalized

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