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100 1  Roy, Arundhati,|eauthor|enarrator. 
245 14 The ministry of utmost happiness|h[OverDrive/Libby 
       electronic resource]|ba novel /|cArundhati Roy. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2017. 
300    1 sound file :|bdigital 
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385    General|2tlctarget 
500    Electronic audio file. 
511 0  Read by Arundhati Roy. 
520    "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 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 on every page the miracle
       of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "An epic novel of love and history and the perseverance of
       the human spirit in the face of loss and tragedy"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cPenguin Random House 
       Audio Publishing Group|d2017|nAvailable via World Wide 
       Web. 
650  0 Interpersonal relations|vFiction.|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Self-realization|vFiction.|vSound recordings. 
651  0 India|vFiction. 
655  7 Love stories.|2gsafd 
655  7 Electronic audio books.|2local 
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