Arundhati Roy | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Jun 8, 2017
- 2 min read
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes
How do you launch a book when the author is thousands of miles away? Why, you have a tea party of course!
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. Although it has been 20 years since the publication of her first novel, her pen has not been idle. Along with award-winning screenplay writing, she has written numerous essays covering India’s 1998 nuclear tests, the rise of Hindu Nationalism, the armed Maoist insurrection in central India , the struggle for self-determination in Kashmir and US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. She has been jailed in the past for her views and is even now facing a trial for criminal contempt of court for an essay she wrote about an incarcerated college lecturer.
Some early reviews for this book:
This makes for an ambitious but highly discursive novel...... (NYTimes.com)
A scattershot narrative makes this long-awaited second novel unwieldy, if ultimately rewarding.... (The Guardian)
It is also a restless novel of loss - and some love - written in prose which is often incandescent and funny...... (BBC News)
This is not a book that appeals to me as my brief view into the innards saw too many characters and places, but it will appeal to those who love a saga which engages in the struggle for freedom.
Well done Skoobs for the initiative shown with this book launch.
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