Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. She also has published several books of nonfiction including The End of Imagination, Capitalism: A Ghost Story and The Doctor and the Saint. She lives in New Delhi.
“A great tempest of a novel. . . . Will leave you awed.” —The
Washington Post
“Staggeringly beautiful. . . . Once a decade, if we are lucky, a
novel emerges from the cinder pit of living that asks the urgent
question of our global era. . . . Roy’s novel is this decade’s
ecstatic and necessary answer.” —The Boston Globe
“Powerful and moving. . . . Infused with so much passion—political,
social, emotional—that it vibrates. It may leave you shaking, too.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Roy writes with astonishing vividness.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“Magisterial. . . . The Ministry of Utmost Happiness works its
empathetic magic upon a breathtakingly broad slate.” —O, The Oprah
Magazine
“A fiercely unforgettable novel about gender, terrorism, Indian’s
caste system, corruption and politics. . . . A love story with
characters so heartbreaking and compelling they sear themselves
into the reader’s brain.” —USA Today
“Thrilling. . . . [Roy’s] luminous passages span eras and regions
of the Indian subcontinent and artfully weave the stories of
several characters into a triumphant symphony.” —Minneapolis Star
Tribune
“A lustrously braided and populated tale.” —Vanity Fair
“Roy’s second novel proves as remarkable as her first. . . .
Through [the characters’] archetypal interactions, juxtaposed with
Roy’s glorious social details, you will have been granted a
powerful sense of their world, of the complexity, energy and
diversity of contemporary India.” —Financial Times
“Epic in scale, but intimately human in its concerns, the
long-awaited story dazzles with its kaleidoscopic narrative
approach and unforgettable characters.” —Elle
“The novel weaves the personal and the political with powerful
results. . . . Roy turns her lens outward to examine India’s rich
but violent history and the catastrophic lingering effects of
Partition.” —Esquire
“A riotous carnival, as wryly funny and irreverent as its author.”
—The Guardian
“A deeply rewarding work. . . . Images in The Ministry of
Utmost Happiness . . . wedge themselves in the mind like memories
of lived experience.” —Slate
“Complex and ambitious. . . . A deep and richly satisfying read.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“One of the best protest novels ever written. . . . Roy elucidates
the conversation around power and diversity in a way that no other
author does.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“A rich, romantic, and sprawling tale. . . . You’re guaranteed to
fall in love with the characters and be swept up by the writing.”
—Glamour
“Once again, Roy demonstrates her mastery of exquisite prose,
visionary intelligence and a bent for epic storytelling.” —The
Seattle Times
“Haunting. . . . A passionate political masterpiece delivered in an
enchanting array of narrative styles and voices.” —The Times
Literary Supplement
“Stunning. . . . Roy’s lyrical sentences, and the ferocity of her
narrative, are a wonder to behold.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
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