Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Name: Ministry of Utmost Happiness : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Arundhati Roy

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«She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has been ten years in the making»
Daily Mail

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The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Things. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, 'normalcy' is declared. Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope. For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.

Detaljer

Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 464
ISBN: 9780241980767
Utgivelsesår: 2018
Format: 20 x 13 cm

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«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

«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

«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

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The follow-up we've been longing for - a poetic, densely populated contemporary novel in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy. From its beginning, one is swept up in the story... With her exquisite and dynamic storytelling, Roy balances scenes of suffering and corruption with humour and transcendence
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Vogue

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Compelling, musical, cinematic... [A] genuine poignancy and depth of emotion. Her gift is for the personal: for poetic description [and an] ability to map the complicated arithmetic of love and belonging . . . The Ministry of Utmost Happiness manages to extract hope from tragedies
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The New York Times