'Astonishing' follow-up to the Booker Prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling The God of Small Things.
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers and Broken Republic. She lives in Delhi.
She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has
been ten years in the making
*Daily Mail*
Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first
*Financial Times*
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness confirms Roy's 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 Roy's 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*
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. It's heartening when
writers live up to the hyperbole that surrounds them
*Hirsh Sawhney*
A kaleidoscopic story about the struggle for Kashmir's
independence
*Washington Post*
A sprawling, kaleidoscopic fable about love and resistance in
modern India
*The Guardian*
The follow-up we've been longing for - a poetic, densely populated
contemporary novel in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy. From
its beginning, one is swept up in the story... With her exquisite
and dynamic storytelling, Roy balances scenes of suffering and
corruption with humour and transcendence
*Vogue*
Compelling, musical, cinematic... [A] genuine poignancy and depth
of emotion. Her gift is for the personal: for poetic description
[and an] ability to map the complicated arithmetic of love and
belonging . . . The Ministry of Utmost Happiness manages to extract
hope from tragedies
*The New York Times*
A passionate political masterpiece
*Times Literary Supplement*
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