{"title":"Novel of the week","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Novel of the week collection. Best Price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness","title":"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 - Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Magnificent - unlike anything I've read in years. An absolutely dazzling, original, and ultimately profound novel...A masterpiece. Very few writers can write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArundhati Roy is properly special. We should be grateful to have her among us.' Mirza Waheed, author of The Book of Gold Leaves '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 The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Things The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, 'normalcy' is declared. Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story and a decisive remonstration. It is told in a whisper, in a shout, through tears and sometimes with a laugh. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor this reason, they are as steely as they are fragile, and they never surrender. This ravishing, magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do and can be. And it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A novel that demands and rewards the reader's concentration, this is a dazzling return to form' Independent 'This novel is a freedom song. Every page has the stamp of Roy's originality. Such brutality, such beauty' Amitva Kumar, the author of Immigrant, Montana 'Intricately layered and passionate, studded with jokes and with horrors...This is a work of extraordinary intricacy and grace' Prospect Magazine 'Ambitious, original, and haunting' Publishers Weekly starred review 'A masterpiece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoy joins Dickens, Naipaul, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. 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His hero is Baxter Stone, a “suicidally disillusioned” film-maker who works in the Vizz, the crisis-struck television industry – and possibly a thinly disguised allusion to the media company Vice. Baxter used to be a director with “ideals”; now he “helms one-hour docs” on bizarre and sensationalist themes, accompanied by his “crew”, a thuggish vegan cameraman called Semtex.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Rule the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a “wickedly funny novel about a serious topic” that “will make you feel smarter than you really are”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis is Fischer’s first novel in a decade, and “bar the addition of several gallons of black bile”, little has changed, said Tim Martin in The Daily Telegraph. 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A “high-tech chase narrative in low-slung prose”, it is set in near-future Nevada and centres on Colt, a virtual reality-addicted 16-year-old, and his sex-addicted biologist mother, Naomi. Written in the “jaunty style of a Hollywood action thriller”, and at times reading like a “gonzo hybrid between\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e”,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a pacey and entertaining novel that addresses important themes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis is a “predictive novel” which, appealingly, “avoids the usual doomsday clichés”, said Claire Lowdon in The Sunday Times. 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Larry is a lapsed “New York Jew” whose dad has just died. To fulfil his obligations, he’s required to recite the Kaddish (mourning prayer) for a year, but all he wants to do is watch porn and masturbate. (In one “gross-out scene” recalling\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortnoy’s Complaint\u003c\/i\u003e, he disposes of his semen in a fish tank.) When Larry discovers kaddish.com, a website that allows errant sons to pay a proxy to recite their prayers, his problems appear to be over.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eExcept it doesn’t quite turn out like that, said Andrew Holgate in The Sunday Times. “Fast-forward 20 years and Larry is now Rabbi Shuli, an impeccably Orthodox teacher.” Racked with guilt over youthful misdeeds, he goes in search of the “surrogate to whom he entrusted his father’s spiritual well-being”, a shift that leads Englander to abandon satire for a more serious tone. 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