A new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of the monumental God of Small Things.
Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her political writings include The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic and Capitalism- A Ghost Story, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack. Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi and her new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness will be published by Hamish Hamilton in June 2017.
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*
A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat
of its anger and the depth of its compassion
*Washington Post*
A humane, engaged near-fairy tale that soon turns dark - full of
characters and their meetings, accidental and orchestrated alike to
find, yes, that utmost happiness of which the title speaks
*Kirkus (starred review)*
An author worth waiting two decades for
*Financial Times*
Ambitious, original, and haunting. A novel [that] fuses tenderness
and brutality, mythic resonance and the stuff of headlines . .
.essential to Roy's vision of a bewilderingly beautiful,
contradictory, and broken world
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, García Márquez, and
Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant
wit. A tale of suffering, sacrifice and transcendence-an
entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic
*Booklist (starred review)*
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*
This intimate epic about India over the past two decades is superb:
political but never preachy; heartfelt yet ironic; precisely
poetic
*Daily Telegraph*
Arguably the biggest publishing event of the year
*Financial Times*
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 first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of
The God of Small Things
*Penguin*
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