The ministry of utmost happiness / (Record no. 707637)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781524733155 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914 ROY/M
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Roy, Arundhati,
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The ministry of utmost happiness /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Arundhati Roy.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First United States edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication . - Haryana
Name of publisher : Penguin randon house
Year of publication , 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 449 pages ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Interpersonal relations
Form subdivision Fiction.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Self-realization
Form subdivision Fiction.
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Topical Term FICTION / Literary.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term FICTION / Family Life.
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Topical Term FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
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