The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel

A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinentâ‚¬"from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of loveâ‚¬"and by hope.
The tale begins with Anjumâ‚¬"who used to be Aftabâ‚¬"unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved herâ‚¬"including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tiloâ‚¬s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrsâ‚¬ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.
As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Royâ‚¬s storytelling gifts.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1524733156
ReleaseDate 2017-06-06
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
UPCs 642688062354
EANs 9781524733155

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1524733156
ReleaseDate	2017-06-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
UPCs	642688062354
EANs	9781524733155

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel

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