The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy 9780241980774, 0241980771, B01N32B2M2 instant download after payment.

Arundhati Roy’s shimmering, kaleidoscopic fable. Its heroes, present & departed, have been broken by the world we live in — & then mended by love.

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 & beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir & the forests of Central India, where war is peace & peace is war, & where, from time to time, ‘normalcy’ is declared.  

In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people who attended her funeral. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people who've known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as though they have only just met.

"...a fierce & fabulously disobedient novel, a book as fearless as her essays on the environment, nuclear proliferation, & Kashmiri independence are bold ... announces itself page by page in noisy, foul-mouthed, and staggeringly beautiful sentences... Once a decade, if we are lucky, a novel emerges from the cinder pit of living that asks what increasingly appears to be the urgent question of our global era. How do you write fiction in an era when states are deformed by the violence they do in the name of nationalism & power? Roy’s novel is this decade’s ecstatic & necessary answer." — John Freeman, The Boston Globe

Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize For Fiction

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 & has been translated into more than 40 languages.  Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers & The Broken Republic.