The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Author Arundhati Roy
- Narrator Arundhati Roy
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 16 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, War, combat and military adventure fiction.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written and read by Arundhati Roy.
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE 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... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion' Washington Post
'A dazzling return to form' Independent
'Intricately layered and passionate, a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace' Prospect
'A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, García Márquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic' Booklist starred review
'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke...'
So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a 'country of her own skin' . When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight...
Critics Review
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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 -
A great tempest of a novel… which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion
Washington Post -
A humane, engaged near-fairy tale that soon turns dark – full of characters and their meetings, accidental and orchestrated alike to find, yes, that utmost happiness of which the title speaks
Kirkus (starred review) -
An author worth waiting two decades for
Financial Times -
Ambitious, original, and haunting. A novel [that] fuses tenderness and brutality, mythic resonance and the stuff of headlines . . .essential to Roy’s vision of a bewilderingly beautiful, contradictory, and broken world
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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