The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy review: all too obvious
May 29, 2017  10:46
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"True to her campaigning instincts, Roy the activist is soon referring to the tragic history of her country. "Then came Partition. God's carotid burst open on the new border between India and Pakistan and a million people died of hatred." The graveyard, as is obvious, is a metaphor for India. But then everything is obvious in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Despite the violence and the brutality; religious tensions and emphasis on varying darkness of skin colour, the underlying tone is hopeful, which should be acknowledged as the narrative is so ramshackle and randomly conceived, a reader could easily lose interest -- and probably will."

The Irish Times reviews Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Read the review here.
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