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082			_a823.914 _bROY [SHELF 3 ]
100			_aRoy, Arundhati
245			_aThe ministry of Utmost Happiness / _cArundhati Roy.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
264			_aGurugram : _bPenguin Random House, _c2017.
300			_a445 pages ; _c22 cm
520			_a"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 transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. 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. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. 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. A 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. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aInterpersonal relations _v Fiction.
650			_aSelf-realization _v Fiction.
650			_aFICTION / Literary. _2 bisacsh
650			_aFICTION / Family Life. _2 bisacsh
650			_aFICTION / Cultural Heritage. _2 bisacsh
651			_aIndia _v Fiction.
655		7	_aLove stories. _2 gsafd
710			_aGene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress) _5 DLC
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