The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is important as a collection of essays but less digestible as a novel.

The book was also heavily criticised by EK ... she says they’re all given a nod in the acknowledgements to The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.) Don’t call her the voice of the voiceless.

As Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime broadcasts The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – the second novel by the prize-winning writer Arundhati Roy, which took 10 years to write – we present a selection ...

Arundhati Roy is an author and an activist for human rights and environmental causes. Her fiction includes the 1997 novel The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017). With each ...