Kiran Desai

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Kiran Desai is an Indian author]. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.

Books by Kiran Desai

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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
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In a crumbling Himalayan mansion, a disillusioned judge, his granddaughter in a forbidden romance, and a cook whose son chases the American dream navigate personal turmoil and the violent currents of a nation grappling with its past and future.