![]() In 1997, she published that book, “The God of Small Things.” Within months, it had sold four hundred thousand copies and won the Booker Prize, which had never before been given to a non-expatriate Indian-an Indian who actually lived in India-or to an Indian woman. She had also been working on a novel for five years. In the late nineteen-nineties, when Roy was in her thirties, she did some acting and screenwriting-she had married a filmmaker, Pradip Krishen-but mostly, she says, she made her living as an aerobics instructor. Photograph by Bharat Sikka for The New YorkerĪrundhati Roy’s “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” (Knopf) is a book that people have been waiting twenty years for. ![]() Roy’s second novel, coming twenty years after the first, is steeped in her politics. ![]()
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