If it doesn’t entirely float, either, that is due not so much to the inclusion of political material per se as to the sheer quantity that Roy is willing to include, a proliferation of detail that doesn’t always pull its weight within the framework of the story. It is in many places gripping, moving, and fueled by a burning rage at India’s human rights record. Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, does not sink. With the weight of all that expectation, you could sink. If you then take twenty years to produce that elusive follow-up, well. If your first novel was a barnstorming global sensation that won the Booker Prize, doubly so. The Great Reread, #5: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie SmithĪ second novel is a tricky thing.April 2023: superlatives for the rest of it.
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