The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy is the long-awaited second novel from the author of The God of Small Things — winner of the Booker Prize and beloved by millions worldwide. Published in hardback by Hamish Hamilton, this second novel arrives twenty years after the first and announces that Roy's literary powers are fully intact — and in some respects even more ambitious.

The novel is an extraordinarily rich tapestry of contemporary India — spanning Delhi, Kashmir, and the vast in-between — populated by unforgettable characters: Anjum, a hijra who makes her home in a graveyard; Tilo, an architect caught between three men who love her; soldiers, activists, politicians, and the dispossessed inhabiting the margins of India's contradictions.

A novel of grief, beauty, resistance, and the stubborn persistence of love in a world doing its best to make love impossible. Essential reading for anyone who takes serious literary fiction seriously and for anyone who wants to understand the multiple, contradictory, magnificent, and heartbreaking realities of contemporary India.

Product Details

Author: Arundhati Roy
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (Penguin India)
ISBN-13: 9780670089635
Dimensions: Approx. 22 × 15 × 3 cm
Weight: Approx. 0.50 kg
Delivery Time: 3–5 Business Days