Everybody who grew up reading God of Small Things knows the joy of reading through Arundhati Roy’s unfeigned and spirited story-telling; of living in the plot and the warmth of its characters. The masterpiece has turned 20 this year and Roy has managed to remain absent from the literary scene.
But the wait is finally over! The highly acclaimed-Man Booker Prize winning- author has finally announced the date for her upcoming novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness- June 6.
Roy has been working on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness--a contemporary story set in the Indian subcontinent--for nearly a decade.
“I have lived with the characters in this book for close to 10 years,” Roy was quoted saying by New York Times. “Between them they have conspired to confound accepted categories and notions — including my own — of identity and gender, nationhood and patriotism, faith, family, motherhood, death — and love itself.”
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Though the writer kept away from writing novels, she has written piles of articles on human interest and has been active as a social activist voicing strong opinions on Kashmir’s autonomy and the Red-Corridor. Walking With Comrades, Kashmir: The Case Of Freedom are few to be named.
She has also been a prolific contributor for Outlook Magazine. Check out her pieces here.
