LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 & THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017`A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable` Guardian, Book of the Year * `A dazzling return to form` Independent THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS` An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India` Daily Telegraph` At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard & drift across the city like smoke... ` 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 guesthouse in an Old Delhi graveyard & gathers around her the lost, the broken & 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 & that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years & a teeming continent takes flight... ` Glorious, colourful & compelling. Roy`s second novel proves as remarkable as her first` Financial Times` The book filled me with awe. Propulsive, playful, gorgeous` New York Times Book Review` The unmissable literary read of the summer. With its insights into human nature, its memorable characters & its luscious prose, Ministry is well worth the wait` Time` Staggeringly beautiful
- a fierce, fabulously disobedient novel. Roy is writing at the height of her powers. Urgent, intimate ecstatic` Boston Globe`A searing portrait of modern India` Tatler` This vast novel will leave you awed by the heat of its anger & the depth of its compassion` Washington Post