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020			_a9780143442769 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-3 _bROY
100			_aRoy, Arundhati
245			_aThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness
260			_bPenguin _c2017 _aHaryana
300			_a445p.
505			_a1.Where Do Old Birds Go to Die? 2.Khwabgah 3.The Nativity 4.Dr. Azad Bhartiya 5.The Slow-Goose Chase 6.Some Questions for Later 7.The Landlord 8.The Tenant 9.The Untimely Death of Miss Jebeen the First 10.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 11.The Landlord Guih Kyom
520			_aA 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			_aHuman Spirit
650			_aInterpersonal relations
650			_aFiction
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
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