The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Record no. 74317)
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| fixed length control field | 01777nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780670089635 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 Ar84 M |
| Item number | 103015 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Arundhati Roy |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | Haryana |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Randum House |
| Date of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 445 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.' 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. A 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. The 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. For 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." |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Where do old birds go to die, Khwabgah, The Nativity |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Interpersonal relations |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Self-realization |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Ubhayabharati | CVV Institute of Science and Technology. | General Stacks | 11/06/2018 | 599.00 | 2 | 823.914 Ar84 M 103015 | 103015 | 08/12/2023 | Books |