Book Review : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy is her second fiction novel almost 20 years after The God of Small Things. Arundhati is known to create a surreal world with her words and all of us have witnessed her magic.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a book about love. Love, where you cannot imagine it happening; in the most improbable circumstances. Despite being set in precise and particular geographical location but its real setting is the soul. It is peopled by souls of the present as well as the departed, souls both human and animal. Souls that have been broken by the world we live in and then mended by love.
Arundhati’s latest novel is something that deals with the ‘utmost’ form of love achieving to the ‘utmost’ state of happiness. This book, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy was released on 06 June 2017.
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Vowelor Review
Sprawling yet sublime. Another Booker-worthy masterpiece by Arundhati.
About the Author : Arundhati Roy
Arundhati, born in 1961, is a renowned Indian Author. She won the Man Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things in 1997. Arundhati has invested a lot of time in many other things including a number of social causes, in India and abroad.
Over the years, Arundhati Roy wrote several non-fiction essays, interviews and has set the high standards in the field of ‘real’ Journalism. Her political writings include Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, and most recently Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, co-authored with John Cusack.
