
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Narrated by:
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Arundhati Roy
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By:
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Arundhati Roy
About this listen
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written and read by Arundhati Roy.
An intimate author-read recording of the 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.
Arundhati's voice transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 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 narrated by the author herself, this extraordinary audiobook demonstrates the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.
©2017 Arundhati Roy (P)2017 Penguin AudioAt times brilliant, at others boring
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Wonderful, exquisitely sad, beautifully written and read.
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astonishing return
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Hard work but worth it
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Amazing book
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Minute detail. Overall masterpiece.
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Sorry ; I can't finish it, so many characters and the story told in a monotone confusing style.What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
not finishedWould you listen to another book narrated by Arundhati Roy?
yesIf this book were a film would you go see it?
yesBeautiful words
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The narration by the author is completely authentic and is emotionally spellbinding.
Her writing is in the same league as Harper Lee and JK Rowling.
Well worth the 20 year wait for her second novel.
An excellent read.
Literary Masterpiece.
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Too much to absorb...
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Roy is a spinner of tales.
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