![]() ![]() Unlike a traditionally structured literary work, there is no straightforward synopsis or plot in the way we move through it. ![]() She also comfortably self-identifies as the first aerobics instructor to have won the Man Booker Prize, for her 1997 debut The God of Small Things.īut a city is meant to be lived in and ongoing – a patchwork of unsanctioned streets and back alleys, people who come and go without warning, present-day brutality interwoven with maybe-one-day dreams, found families and invented identities, mother tongues and newspeak and local dialects evolving, dying and intermingling in the air. This isn’t unusual for a self-professed failed architect, formerly trained in Delhi, India. ![]() Arundhati Roy has compared the writing of her second novel in two decades, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Penguin), to building a city. ![]()
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