Arundhati Roy releases first novel in 20 years

Arundhati Roy's eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale yesterday, two decades after her prize-winning debut "The God of Small Things". Penguin published "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness". Roy became the first Indian woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her 1997 work, which sold around 8 million copies and turned the young author into a star of the literary world.