LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\'A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable\' Guardian, Books of the Year\'Roy\'s second novel proves as remarkable as her first\' Financial Times\'A great tempest of a novel...
We should be grateful to have her among us\' Mirza Waheed, author of The Book of Gold Leaves.
Arundhati Roy is properly special.
Very few writers can write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence.
A masterpiece.
An absolutely dazzling, original, and ultimately profound novel...
An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic\' Booklist starred review\'Magnificent - unlike anything I\'ve read in years.
Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit.
Again and again beautiful images refresh our sense of the world\' The New York Times Book Review\'A masterpiece.
Roy writes with astonishing vividness...
This is a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace\' Prospect Magazine\'Gorgeous, supple, playful...
Such brutality, such beauty\' Amitva Kumar, the author of Immigrant, Montana \'Intricately layered and passionate, studded with jokes and with horrors...
Every page has the stamp of Roy\'s originality.
And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy\'s storytelling gifts.\'A novel that demands and rewards the reader\'s concentration, this is a dazzling return to form\' Independent\'This novel is a freedom song.
This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be.
For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender.
Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope.
It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh.
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.
The enigmatic S.
A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion\' Washington PostThe first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small ThingsThe 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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\'A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable\' Guardian, Books of the Year\'Roy\'s second novel proves as remarkable as her first\' Financial Times\'A great tempest of a novel..
