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Book at Bedtime: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Indira Varma

Arundhati Roy

Richard Hamilton

Elizabeth Allard

Book at Bedtime: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Episode 12: Babajaana - My Love

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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Episode 12: Babajaana - My Love

Babajaana - My Love

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In Arundhati Roy's arresting novel, it is autumn and there is love and lament.

In Arundhati Roy's arresting novel, it is autumn in Srinigar and on a lakeside houseboat there is love and lament. Indira Varma is the reader.

Arundhati Roy's arresting new novel is her first since her award winning debut in 1997, The God of Small Things. In this episode it is autumn in Srinigar and on a lakeside houseboat there is love and lament. Indira Varma is the reader.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy's first novel since her celebrated debut The God of Small Things which won the Booker Prize in 1997. It takes listeners on a powerful journey which starts in Old Delhi before moving to the conflict in Kashmir in 1996, and then returning to Delhi and more recent times. Along the way the lives of a cast of vivid and unforgettable characters become inextricably interwoven, especially those of the insouciant and unknowable Tilo, and Musa, the young Kashmiri man whose life has already been shaped by tragedy.

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Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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By Arundhati Roy. A mesmerising journey from Old Delhi to Kashmir.

By Arundhati Roy. A mesmerising journey from Old Delhi to Kashmir and back in which the lives of a cast of vivid characters are intimately interwoven. Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

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