Registre: 1013
Autor: Roy, Arundhati
Editorial: Hamish Hamilton
Idioma: Anglès
Snopsis:
Magnificent - unlike anything I've read in years. An absolutely dazzling,
original, and ultimately profound novel...A masterpiece. Very few writers can
write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence. Arundhati Roy
is properly special. We should be grateful to have her among us.' Mirza Waheed,
author of The Book of Gold Leaves 'Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as
her first' Financial Times 'A great tempest of a novel...which will leave you
awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion' Washington Post
The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of
Small Things The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many
years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi
into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the
forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from
time to time, 'normalcy' is declared. Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a
threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite
suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The
enigmatic S.Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the
lives of the three men who loved her. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at
once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a
whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are
people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended
by love-and by hope. For this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile,
and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a
novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of
Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts. 'A novel that demands and rewards the
reader's concentration, this is a dazzling return to form' Independent 'This
novel is a freedom song. Every page has the stamp of Roy's originality. Such
brutality, such beauty' Amitva Kumar, the author of Immigrant, Montana
'Intricately layered and passionate, studded with jokes and with horrors...This
is a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace' Prospect Magazine 'Ambitious,
original, and haunting' Publishers Weekly starred review 'A masterpiece.Roy
joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion,
storytelling magic, and piquant wit. An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching
epic' Booklist starred review.
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