The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy [in Library Journal]
27 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian
Arundhati Roy’s 1997 Man Booker Prize-winning debut, The God of Small Things, made her an international superstar. Twenty years later, Delhi-based Roy is an activist power house – feted and feared – with an expansive list of nonfiction credits; her second novel should placate her...
“So may I clarify that tonight I speak as a subject of the American empire? I speak as a slave who presumes to criticize her king,” Roy says...
A slim, must-read collection of powerful essays by the author of the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things that questions everything from nuclear power, the so-called war against terror, and the new imperialism....