Ministry Of Utmost Happiness,the - Hamish Hamilton Kel Edici

Autor: ROY,Arundhati

Editorial: PENGUIN BOOKS Ltd.

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780241303979

Reseña: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018 THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable Guardian Books of the Year Roys second novel proves as remarkable as her first Financial Times A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion Washington Post A dazzling return to form Independent Intricately layered and passionate a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace Prospect A 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 At 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 follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum who used to be Aftab who runs a guest-house 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...