The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel (Random House Large Print)
de Arundhati Roy
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Bien/none
- ISBN 10
- 0525590099
- ISBN 13
- 9780525590095
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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*The Ministry of Utmost Happiness- Arundhati Roy -Large Print copy, just good condition has been read several times the corners are lightly thumbed, cover is still glossy, there is a certain amount of minutiae on its edges, not printed on the most expensive paper, the book is in good condition has been read - very nice comfortable large type, not perfect just good... Pictures provided for your review....The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small Things. Its has been translated into 50 languages, including Urdu and Hindi.......The Ministry of Utmost Happiness- Arundhati Roy -Random House Large Print- July 18, 2017 - about -6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 in. 672 pages, ISBN-0525590099, 9780525590095. Subjects Indian author, fiction love story. ....LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it in transit - throw-able -..... sent media mail - 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer.. Heaver books- take longer - have special packaging needs......Ministry happiness 5889 PB BMK 13
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El Aug 14 2017, un lector dijo:
"Their wounds were too old and too new, too different, and perhaps too deep, for healing. But for a fleeting moment, they were able to pool them like accumulated gambling debts and share the pain equally, without naming injuries or asking which was whose. For a fleeting moment they were able to repudiate the world they lived in and call forth another one, just as real."
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author, Arundhati Roy. The story begins with Aftab, whose confusion about what he was found relief at the Khwabgah, among other hijra. He became Anjum, and eventually she ran the Jannat Guest House (in its highly unusual location), a refuge for the quirky, the oppressed, the different.
Integral to the tale is S. Tilottama, real and adopted daughter of Maryam Ipe. Tilo's story, and that of the three men who love her, is told not only by her, but by Dr Azad Bhartiya (fasting Free Indian), Biplab Desgupta (her ex-Intelligence Bureau landlord), and Musa Yeswi (elusive militant). Filling out the quirky cast are a paraven calling himself Saddam Hussain, Zainab the Bandicoot, Naga the journalist, a singing teacher, and an abandoned baby, to name just a few.
How all their lives intersect and how these lives are impacted upon by Government and policy, and in particular, the Kashmiri freedom struggles, is told using vignettes, anecdotes, loosely connected short stories, moral tales, memos, disjointed scraps, accounts that take detours and meander off on tangents. As with Rushdie, Seth and Mistry, this novel has that unmistakeable, essential Indian quality, in characters, in dialogue, in plot.
But here, moreso than in The God of Small Things, the fact that this is a novel by Arundhati Roy the social activist, is very much in evidence (as readers of her non-fiction works will attest) and thus includes illustrations of the many issues against which she rails. Some reviewers describe this novel as "preachy"; the causes are worthy, but readers may feel that is it is only a shade off being exactly that, and perhaps be forgiven for wishing that it was more novel, less moral tale.
Some of Roy's descriptive prose, as with in The God of Small Things, is staggeringly beautiful, poetic and profound: "They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city. And yes, they realised that it was also a rueful comment on Mulaqat Ali's own straitened circumstances. What escaped them was that the couplet was a sly snack, a perfidious samosa, a warning wrapped in mourning, being offered with faux humility by an erudite man who had absolute faith in his listeners' ignorance of Udru, a language which, like most of those who spoke it, was gradually being ghettoized."
However, the vague and veiled references to certain personages, events and ideas which are, perhaps, obvious to those familiar with Indian current affairs, will go straight over the heads of other readers, the message will be lost or less than clear. There is humour, heartache, despair and hope, there is much cruelty but also abundant kindness, making it a moving and powerful read.
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- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5889
- Título
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel (Random House Large Print)
- Autor
- Arundhati Roy
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- none
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- large print
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0525590099
- ISBN 13
- 9780525590095
- Editorial
- Random House Large Print
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2017-07
- Palabras clave
- Random House Large Print-.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness- Arundhati Roy -July 18, 2017 - about -6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 in. 672 pages, ISBN-0525590099, 9780525590095. Subjects Indian author, fiction love story. ....LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction › Literary Fiction;
- Size
- about -6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 in
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