The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy · 2017
Roy's second novel, arriving 20 years after *The God of Small Things*, is a sprawling, furious portrait of contemporary India: Kashmir, intersex identity, political violence, and the spaces where the discarded live. More demanding than her first, and more necessary.
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Twenty years of accumulated fury, poured out without a filter. Roy splits the book between Anjum and Tilo and never quite welds the halves; the Kashmir chapters drift into reportage, characters multiply past counting, and the plot dissolves into pamphlet. Magnificent pages exist here. Finding them requires patience the novel does not always repay.
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