Résumé
So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who, although she is loved by three men, lives in a "country of her own skin". When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight...Quatrième de couvertureA 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 takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent - from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi and the glittering malls of the burgeoning new metropolis to the snowy mountains and valleys of Kashmir, where war is peace and peace is war, and from time to time 'normalcy' is declared.Anjum unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. We encounter the incorrigible Saddam Hussain, the unforgettable Tilo and the three men who loved her - including Musa whose fate as tightly entwined with hers as their arms always used to be. Tilo's landlord, another former suitor, is now an Intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then there are the two Miss Jebeens: the first born in Srinagar and buried, aged four, in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard
Quatrième de couverture
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 takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent - from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi and the glittering malls of the burgeoning new metropolis to the snowy mountains and valleys of Kashmir, where war is peace and peace is war, and from time to time 'normalcy' is declared.Anjum unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. We encounter the incorrigible Saddam Hussain, the unforgettable Tilo and the three men who loved her - including Musa whose fate as tightly entwined with hers as their arms always used to be. Tilo's landlord, another former suitor, is now an Intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then there are the two Miss Jebeens: the first born in Srinagar and buried, aged four, in its overcrowded Martyrs' GraveyardBiographie de l'auteurArundhati Roy is the author ofThe God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, andThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, includingThe Algebra of Infinite Justice,Listening to Grasshoppers andBroken Republic. She lives in Delhi.
À propos de l'auteur
Roy, Arundhati
Arundhati Roy is the author ofThe God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, andThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, includingThe Algebra of Infinite Justice,Listening to Grasshoppers andBroken Republic. She lives in Delhi.
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- Titre : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Auteur : Roy, Arundhati
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 464
- Genre : Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Date de publication : 14-03-2018
- Édition : Penguin Books Ltd
- Poids : 0.32099995019294214 kg
- Dimensions : 12.8999742 x 2.6999946 x 19.7999604 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0241980763
- ISBN-13 : 9780241980767
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