The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Name: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Author: Arundhati Roy

by Arundhati Roy

Interconnected stories of marginalized people in contemporary India

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Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist and activist whose debut The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize and became a global literary sensation. Her work combines political commitment with extraordinary lyrical beauty. Her long-awaited second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness appeared twenty years later.

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