"How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything."
This week's Book of the Week is Arundhati Roy's long-anticipated second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 

>> Read an extract. 

>> And another extract. 

>> A strange and frightening dream. 

>> Fiction and politics. 

>> Roy returns to fiction, in fury. 

>> Interviewed on Democracy Now. 

>> "Black ants, pink crumbs."

>> The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997.

>> Can she win it again this year? 

>> Chatting with Rushdie (1997).

>> Other books by Roy. 

>> Why Roy thinks India is a corporate upper-caste state.