![]() ![]() In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears just after midnight. ![]() In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. 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. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. ![]() 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. ![]()
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