The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Record no. 60464)
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| fixed length control field | 02546 a2200217 4500 |
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| fixed length control field | 240613b 2017|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780143442769 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 82-3 |
| Item number | ROY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Roy, Arundhati |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Penguin |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Place of publication | Haryana |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 445p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1.Where Do Old Birds Go to Die? <br/>2.Khwabgah <br/>3.The Nativity<br/>4.Dr. Azad Bhartiya<br/>5.The Slow-Goose Chase<br/>6.Some Questions for Later<br/>7.The Landlord<br/>8.The Tenant <br/>9.The Untimely Death of Miss Jebeen the First<br/>10.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<br/>11.The Landlord Guih Kyom |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts"-- "An epic novel of love and history and the perseverance of the human spirit in the face of loss and tragedy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Human Spirit |
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| Topical Term | Interpersonal relations |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| 1 | IMSc Library | Technical Processing | 82-3 ROY | 78008 | BOOKS |