UID:
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Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9780241980781
Content:
"Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written and read by Arundhati Roy. FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018 THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable' Guardian, Books of the Year 'Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first' Financial Times 'A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion' Washington Post 'A dazzling return to form' Independent 'Intricately layered and passionate, a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace' Prospect 'A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcí a Má rquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic' Booklist starred review 'At magic hour,when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke...' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is loved by three men, lives in a 'country of her own skin' . When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight..."
Content:
Rezension(1): "Financial Times:An author worth waiting two decades for" Rezension(2): "Hirsh Sawhney:Fantastic. The novel is unflinchingly critical of power, and yet she empowers her underdog characters to persevere, leaving readers with a few droplets of much-needed hope. It's heartening when writers live up to the hyperbole that surrounds them" Rezension(3): "Washington Post:A kaleidoscopic story about the struggle for Kashmir's independence" Rezension(4): "The Guardian:A sprawling, kaleidoscopic fable about love and resistance in modern India" Rezension(5): "Financial Times:Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first" Rezension(6): "Daily Telegraph:Heartfelt, poetic, intimate, laced with ironic humour...The intensity of Roy's writing - the sheer amount she cares about these people - compels you to concentrate...This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India" Rezension(7): "Publishers Weekly (starred review):Ambitious, original, and haunting. A novel [that] fuses tenderness and brutality, mythic resonance and the stuff of headlines .essential to Roy's vision of a bewilderingly beautiful, contradictory, and broken world" Rezension(8): "Kirkus (starred review):A humane, engaged near-fairy tale that soon turns dark - full of characters and their meetings, accidental and orchestrated alike to find, yes, that utmost happiness of which the title speaks" Rezension(9): "Good Housekeeping:A beautiful and grotesque portrait of modern India and the world beyond. Take your time over it, just as the author did" Rezension(10): "Financial Times:Arguably the biggest publishing event of the year" Rezension(11): "Washington Post:A great tempest of a novel... which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion" Rezension(12): "Daily Telegraph:This intimate epic about India over the past two decades is superb: political but never preachy,heartfelt yet ironic,precisely poetic" Rezension(13): "Donna Seaman:A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcí" Rezension(14): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 3, 2017 Appearing two decades after 1997'" Rezension(15): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:If Arundhati Roy's lyrical prose, melodic voice, and lilting accents aren't enough, the stories of Anjum, Tilottama, and a cast of society's misbegotten--interwoven with India's social and political growing pains--will keep listeners captivated. Born with both male and female genitalia and raised male, Anjum is a woman trapped in a man's body. She leaves her family home and lives with other hijra in a House of Dreams in Delhi. Eventually disenchanted, she moves into a cemetery, living on her family's graves. The lost souls she meets there and the sacrifices they make comprise Roy's indelible portraits of outcasts, damaged psyches, and a country suffering upheavals and uncertainty at every turn. Roy's impeccable diction makes this dense and challenging saga accessible and unforgettable. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine"
Note:
Auszeichnungen: The National Book Critics Circle:National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hörbuch
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Author information:
Roy, Arundhati
