02903cam a2200361 i 4500 297297533 TxAuBib 20170628120000.0 170206s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017002124 9781524733155 hardcover : acid-free paper 1524733156 hardcover : acid-free paper TxAuBib rda Roy, Arundhati. The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel / Arundhati Roy. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. pages ; cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. "An epic novel of love and history and the perseverance of the human spirit in the face of loss and tragedy"-- Provided by publisher. 20170628. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Self-realization Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Family Life. FICTION / Cultural Heritage. India Fiction. Love stories. TXEDR