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A dazzling, richly shifting new novel by the internationally celebrated writer of The God of Small Things
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of a few years throughout the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the brand new metropolis to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and past, the place conflict is peace and peace is conflict.
It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a narrative advised in a whisper, in a shout, via unsentimental tears and typically with a bitter giggle. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are individuals who have been damaged by the world they stay in after which rescued, patched collectively by acts of affection—and by hope.
The story begins with Anjum—who was Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a metropolis graveyard she calls house. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the lads who beloved her—together with Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms was and all the time might be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the 2 Miss Jebeens: the primary a toddler born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second discovered at midnight, deserted on a concrete sidewalk within the coronary heart of New Delhi.
As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives collectively, it reinvents what a novel can do and may be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on each web page the miracle of Arundhati Roy’s storytelling presents.
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