In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. 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. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a sub-continent on a journey of many years. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018Ī 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.
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