Writer-activist Arundhati Roy is all set to publish her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, in June this year, nearly 20 years after her debut novel The God of Small Things won the Man Booker Prize. Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, was first published in 1997 and won the Booker Prize the same year. It told the story of fraternal twins both in 1969, when they are children growing up in Kerala, India, and later on, when they are reunited in their 30s. While the author makes her second foray into fiction with the new novel, she has been active in writing non-fiction — particularly essays on social causes — since her Booker win. Her non-fiction works include Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story.

Source: Hindustan Times February 02, 2017 12:11 UTC