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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - (a Noor favourite)

- Arundhati Roy

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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness -Arundhati Roy

Bookseller Recommendation: A journey, an odyssey, a life. This is the book you want to read when you have time to immerse yourself in a new life. Arundhati doesn’t write novels so much as she writes cities - and no city is complete without its history and people. We follow Anjum on her journey to find her place in the world as a muslim hijra in Old Delhi. We also follow Tilo, an architect who becomes embroiled in the brutality subjected upon Kashmir and finds love - and fury there. One day, by way of a baby, these two meet…

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. Braiding together the lives of a diverse cast of characters who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope, here Arundhati Roy reinvents what a novel can do and can be.