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Original Title:	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
ISBN:	067008963X (ISBN13: 9780670089635)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2017), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

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Title	:	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Author	:	Arundhati Roy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	June 6th 2017 by Hamish Hamilton (first published June 2017)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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How to tell a shattered story?

By slowly becoming everybody.

No?

By slowly becoming everything.

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 love 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.

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'Once you have fallen of the edge like all of us have, including our Biroo,' Anjum said, 'you will never stop falling. And as you fall, you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we have made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is no haqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist.'These words by Anjum, the hijra (transgender in modern terminology), encapsulate what Arundhati Roy has tried to do

This is one of the trickiest books to review because it is good and bad at the same time; likeable and non-likeable at the same time. Fans of Roy should expect a novel that is so unlike its predecessor. The writing is beautiful, (more grim and dingy compared to The God of Small things) and Roy has managed to fit in almost all the problems of India, both political and social. The plot is weak, characters lack depth and the book could have been easily shorter. But on the other hand the book gives

This is a political book from A. Roy, reflecting on the conflict and times of turmoil between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. The multitude of intricacies; the problems the peoples of that region had to face for many decades are being told through the viewpoint of many protagonists; each fighting their own demons and telling their part of the multifaceted drama. The effects of new imperialism, exploitation of people's lands, corruption of governments, people divided by religon, effects of

[Originally appeared here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li...]How does a lament sound? Like a distorted sonorous wave? Hitting the crest with a shrill cry and falling to quietude with mangled whimpers? Or like a prolonged stream of soiled garble, comprehensible only to its beholder?I don't know on which note of the spectrum this book might fit in, but I do know that this book is a lament - lament on the daily struggles for (dignified) survival borne by the scarred populace of war-torn

Inner dialogue while reading The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness:This is funOh this is sadThis is boring This is boring Who is this?Skip ahead to the part about the interesting character Shit now I don't know who they're talking aboutGo backThis is boring Skip ahead againSkimSkimSkimOnly 48% through?!It's a Man Booker keep goingSighThese judges always do this to meFinish reading in my carIt's hotI'm doneNext...

When the harp begins to sing and the guitar begins to harp, things change dramatically! That is why the book by A Roy has become a dramatic monologue of the ideas and innuendos that she often offers off the books. Reference to the past events are always the best way to write a novel; however, a subtle mechanism behind recalling the events of the past and making them sound like one wants to does call for a scrutiny! Roy's thoughts against the Indian state are well-known. Nevertheless, one (a

Arundhati Roy waited 20 years to write the follow up to her Booker-prize-winning and best-selling debut novel, so unsurprisingly many publishers vied for this book. She tells in a Guardian interview how she chose the successful publisher:She told her literary agent, I dont want all this bidding and vulgarity, you know. She wanted interested publishers to write her a letter instead, describing how they understood her book. She then convened a meeting with them. OK, her agent prompted afterwards.