Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Ministry of Maximum Joy, written and go through by Arundhati Roy.

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‘A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable’ Guardian, Books of the entire year

‘ about The Ministry of Extreme Happiness: Longlisted for the person Booker Reward 2017 Roy’s second book proves as extraordinary as her initial’ Financial Instances

‘A great tempest of a novel… which will leave you awed by heat of its anger as well as the depth of its compassion’ Washington Post

‘A dazzling go back to form’ Independent

‘Intricately layered and passionate, a work of outstanding intricacy and grace’ Prospect

‘A masterpiece. Roy joins Dickens, Naipaul, García Márquez, and Rushdie in her abiding compassion, storytelling magic, and piquant wit. An entrancing, imaginative, and wrenching epic’ Booklist starred review

‘At magic hour; when sunlight has gone however the light hasn’t, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from your Banyan trees and shrubs in the older graveyard and drift over the city like smoke cigarettes…’

So starts The Ministry of Maximum Joy, Arundhati Roy’s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who utilized to become Aftab, who operates a guest-house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the dropped, the broken as well as the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who although she is enjoyed by three men, lives in a ‘country of her very own skin’ . When Tilo claims an discontinued baby as her very own, her destiny which of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight…