03164cam a2200409 i 4500 6907 6907 19483100 OSt 20200205142455.0 170206s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 2017002124 9780143442769 (hardcover : acidfree paper) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc a-ii--- PR9499.3.R59 M56 2017 823 ROY 23 FIC019000 FIC045000 FIC051000 bisacsh Roy, Arundhati, author. The ministry of utmost happiness / Arundhati Roy. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 449 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts"-- Provided by publisher. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Self-realization Fiction. FICTION / Literary. bisacsh FICTION / Family Life. bisacsh FICTION / Cultural Heritage. bisacsh India Fiction. Love stories. gsafd 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc STL 0 0 ddc 0 0 Stack II 126/4 AIISH AIISH 2020-02-05 5 823 ROY 22032 2025-12-29 00:00:00 2025-12-10 2020-02-05 STL