Naipaul once called “poverty and an abjectness too fearful to imagine.” The barbarities of history: the bloody politics of colonialism and partition, shockingly violent outbreaks of religious strife, paralyzing caste and class prejudices, and what V. In “ The God of Small Things,” her stunning debut novel, published 20 years ago, Arundhati Roy wrote that in India, “ personal despair could never be desperate enough” because “Worse Things had happened” and would keep happening.
THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS By Arundhati Roy 449 pages.
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