The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel / Arundhati Roy.

Roy, Arundhati, author.

Book

First United States edition.

New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017].

©2017.

449 pages ; 22 cm.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi. As this deeply humane novel braids these richly complex lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be.-- Adapted from book jacket.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Self-realization -- Fiction.

India -- Fiction.

Love stories.

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