00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685675941131685725 Buklod 20240122110147.0 m | | | ta 240122s2017 nyu r 000 1 eng d 9781524711276 19483100 BC-74100 Gift- Kristina Wood DLC BAG rda eng PR 9499.3 R59 M56 2017 Roy, Arundhati author. The ministry of utmost happiness Arundhati Roy. The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel. First United States edition. New York Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random house LLC 2017. 449 pages 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume 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. India Fiction. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 9499.3 R59 M56 2017 Book