![]() We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small Things. So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy’s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. ‘At magic hour, when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke …’ ![]() ![]() ‘Glorious, colourful and compelling … Roy’s second novel proves as remarkable as her first’ ![]()
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