Arundhati Roy on Returning to Fiction, Redefining Happiness & Writing about Worlds Ripped Apart
June 20, 2017
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as posted by the channelToday we spend the hour with the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It has been 20 years since her debut novel, "The God of Small Things," made her a literary sensation. While the book won the Booker Prize and became an international bestseller, selling over 6 million copies, Roy soon turned away from fiction. Now, two decades later, Roy has returned to fiction and has just published her second novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness."
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