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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Arundhati Roy
- Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 27 Min.
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Beschreibung von Audible
Editors Select, June 2017
Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness begins in the "Jannat Guest House", a graveyard where living people have taken up residence. (If there’s a better metaphor for autobiographical fiction, I’d like to hear it.) In a cruel society-outside-of-society, some dignity still abides for the broken-down denizens: untouchables, addicts, abandoned children, and our transgender protagonist, Anjum: "she let the hurt blow through her branches like a breeze and used the music of her rustling leaves as balm to ease the pain." The author’s narration enlivens each character’s point of view and makes this episodic and sprawling story seem like a deliberately choreographed ballet. Every character appears on their own terms, and the author’s measured, attentive performance conveys the cruelty and wit and unexpected sweetness of their experience - Arundhati Roy’s voice is not just lyrical, it’s essential. —Christina, Audible Editor
Inhaltsangabe
A richly moving new novel - the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and an enduring classic.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety - in search of meaning and of love.
In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met.
A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation - a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears, and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in - and then mended by love. For this reason they will never surrender.
How to tell a shattered story?
By slowly becoming everybody.
No.
By slowly becoming everything.
Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.
