{"product_id":"2940169091663","title":"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinentamp;mdash;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.\u003cbr\u003e It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of loveamp;mdash;and by hope.\u003cbr\u003e The tale begins with Anjumamp;mdash;who used to be Aftabamp;mdash;unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved heramp;mdash;including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo's landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.\u003cbr\u003e As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114044244208,"sku":"2940169091663","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169091663_p0.jpg?v=1763760673","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169091663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}