Roy, Arundhati The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 9780241303986

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Автор: Roy, Arundhati
Название: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Перевод названия: Арундхати Рой: Министерство абсолютного счастья
ISBN: 9780241303986
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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ISBN-10: 0241303982
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 416
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.06.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 208 x 142 x 37
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMagnificent - unlike anything Ive read in years. An absolutely dazzling, original, and ultimately profound novel... A masterpiece.

Very few writers can write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence. Arundhati Roy is properly special. We should be grateful to have her among us. Mirza Waheed, author of The Book of Gold LeavesRoys second novel proves as remarkable as her first Financial TimesA great tempest of a novel...

which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion Washington PostThe first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small ThingsThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, normalcy is declared.Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S.

Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope.

For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roys storytelling gifts.A novel that demands and rewards the readers concentration, this is a dazzling return to form IndependentThis novel is a freedom song.

Every page has the stamp of Roys originality. Such brutality, such beauty Amitva Kumar, the author of Immigrant, Montana Intricately layered and passionate, studded with jokes and with horrors... This is a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace Prospect MagazineGorgeous, supple, playful...

Roy writes with astonishing vividness... Again and again beautiful images refresh our sense of the world The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit.

An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic Booklist starred review

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Roy, Arundhati