Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness : Longlisted for the Man Booker Multicolor

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt magic hour when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke...So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roys incredible followup to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guesthouse in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a country of her own skin . When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight...A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable Guardian, Books of the YearRoys 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 Post Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness : Longlisted for the Man Booker