The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Hamish Hamilton, $32.99 pb, 443 pp, 9780241303986
Fiction
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
by Kerryn Goldsworthy •
Arundhati Roy’s first and only other novel was The God of Small Things (1997). It attracted an advance of half a million pounds; publishing rights were sold in twenty-one countries; and it won the 1997 Booker Prize, as it was then called. Since then it has sold six million copies and has been translated into forty languages. In the interval, Roy has been prolific in her non-fiction and fearless in her political activism.
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