Description
National Bestseller Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. Braiding together the lives of a diverse cast of characters who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love--and by hope, here Arundhati Roy reinvents what a novel can do and can be.
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780525434818
ISBN10: 052543481X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. Braiding together the lives of a diverse cast of characters who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love--and by hope, here Arundhati Roy reinvents what a novel can do and can be.
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780525434818
ISBN10: 052543481X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
About the Author
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. She also has published several books of nonfiction including The End of Imagination, Capitalism: A Ghost Story and The Doctor and the Saint. She lives in New Delhi.