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The ministry of utmost hapiness

The ministry of utmost hapiness

Editeur(s) : HAMISH HAMILTON


LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018br>br>LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017br>br>NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONbr>br>Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018br>br>THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERbr>br>''Magnificent - unlike anything I''ve 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 Leavesbr>br>''Roy''s second novel proves as remarkable as her first'' Financial Timesbr>br>''A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion'' Washington Postbr>br>The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Thingsbr>br>The 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.br>br>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.br>br>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 Roy''s storytelling gifts.br>br>''A novel that demands and rewards the reader''s concentration, this is a dazzling return to form'' Independentbr>br>''This novel is a freedom song. Every page has the stamp of Roy''s originality. Such brutality, such beauty'' Amitva Kumar, the author of Immigrant, Montana br>br>''Intricately layered and passionate, studded with jokes and with horrors... This is a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace'' Prospect Magazinebr>br>''Gorgeous, supple, playful... Roy writes with astonishing vividness... Again and again beautiful images refresh our sense of the world'' The New York Times Book Reviewbr>br>''A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, García Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic'' Booklist starred review>
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Ean : 9780241303986
Date de parution : 29/05/2017
Format et Reliure : Grand format
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