The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 445

    Pages
  • 9780241303979

    ISBN
  • 144 mm

    Width
  • 220 mm

    Height
  • 613 gram

    Weight
  • HARDCOVER

    Binding
  • 6 6 2017

    Publish Date
  • 39 mm

    Spine Width

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    Anjum, one of its two protagonists, is born intersex and raised as a male. Embracing her identity as a woman, she moves from her childhood home in Delhi to the nearby House of Dreams, where hijra like herself live together, and then to a cemetery when that home too fails her. The dwelling she cobbles together on her family's graves becomes a paradoxically life-affirming enclave for the wounded, outcast, and odd. The other protagonist, the woman who calls herself S. Tilottama, fascinates three very different men but loves only one, the elusive Kashmiri activist Musa Yeswi. When an abandoned infant...  Read More

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    Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who writes in English and an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.

    For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.

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