![]() ![]() For this reason, they will never surrender. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in-and then mended by love. ![]() It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. 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.Ī 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. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. ![]() In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the peoplewho came to her funeral. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. 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. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. A 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. ![]()
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