03309nam a2200337 a 4500 33858 BD-DhAAL 20230305120720.0 181022t20182017uk ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d 9780241980767 9780670089635 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL 823.914 23 Roy, Arundhati 28538 The ministry of utmost happiness / Arundhati Roy Random House UK : Penguin Books, c2017, 2018. 445 pages ; 22 cm. "This is a Borzoi book"--Back of title page. Where do old birds go to die? -- Khwabgah -- The nativity -- Dr. Azad Bhartiya -- The slow-goose chase -- Some questions for later -- The landlord -- The tenant -- The untimely death of Miss Jebeen the First -- The ministry of utmost happiness -- The landlord -- Guih Kyom. "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" ENH Karim International, Donated By Akbar Ali Khan 33858, 40481 Interpersonal relations Fiction. 28539 Self-realization Fiction. 28540 Self-realization. 28541 English literature. 42973 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 40063 40063 0 0 ddc 0 823_914000000000000_ROY 0 64463 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-10-15 Karim International 653.00 10 46 823.914 ROY 3010033858 2025-07-16 2025-07-02 1 653.00 2018-10-15 BK 0 0 ddc 0 823_914000000000000_ROY 1 73332 BRACUL BRACUL AAKC 2023-03-05 Donated By Akbar Ali Khan 778.00 0 823.914 ROY 3010040481 2023-03-05 2 0000-00-00 BK Rs 599.00