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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

byArundhati Roy

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

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'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 and drift across the city like smoke . . .'

Anjum lives in a graveyard, gathering around her the misfits and outcasts of Delhi's bustling streets. Tilo is a Kashmiri woman, brilliant and beautiful, fated to be loved by three rival men.

When Anjum takes in an abandoned baby, it is Tilo who claims the child as her own - and so begins a tale that will sweep across twenty years, crossing the cities and forests of a teeming continent . . .

She is back with a heavyweight state-of-the-nation story that has been ten years in the making

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About Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241980767
  • Length: 464 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 29mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 327g
  • Price: £10.99
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