Record Number |
773481 |
ISBN |
052549460X |
9780525494607 |
Author |
Roy, Arundhati author, narrator. |
Title |
The ministry of utmost happiness / Arundhati Roy. |
Edition |
Unabridged. |
Publisher/Date |
Westminster, Maryland : Books OnTape, [2017] |
℗2017 |
Pagination etc. |
13 audio discs (CD) (16 hr., 27 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
Performer note |
Read by the author. |
Summary Note |
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. 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. |
Subject |
Family life -- Fiction |
Gender identity -- Fiction |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
Intersex people -- Fiction |
Self-realization -- Fiction |
India -- Fiction |
Audiobooks. |
Romance fiction. |
Corporate Author |
Penguin Random House |
Shelf Location |
CD F ROY |