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The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness: A Novel

by Arundhati Roy

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The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness: A Novel by Arundhati Roy appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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