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The ministry of utmost happiness / Arundhati Roy.
By: Roy, Arundhati [author.]
.Publisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books, 2017Description: 445 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241303979; 9780241303986.Subject(s): Fiction in English | Gender identity -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Transgender people -- Identity -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. Arundhati Roy's new novel gives us a glorious cast of unforgettable characters, caught up in the tide of history, each in search of a place of safety. It is at once a love story and a provocation, an emotional embrace and a decisive remonstration. It is told with a whisper, with a shout, with tears and with a laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, human as well as animal, have been broken by the world we live in and then mended by love.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 823.92 ARU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014059 |
In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. Arundhati Roy's new novel gives us a glorious cast of unforgettable characters, caught up in the tide of history, each in search of a place of safety. It is at once a love story and a provocation, an emotional embrace and a decisive remonstration. It is told with a whisper, with a shout, with tears and with a laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, human as well as animal, have been broken by the world we live in and then mended by love.