The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel
Roy, Arundhati2017
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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.
Main title:
The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel / Arundhati Roy.
Author:
Roy, Arundhati, author
Edition:
First United States edition.
Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017]©2017.
Collation:
449 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781524733155 (hardcover)9781524733162 (ebook)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
383858