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Kiran Desai


Born
in New Delhi, India
September 03, 1971

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.

Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), gained accolades from notable figures including Salman Rushdie, and went on to receive the Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. ...more

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Average rating: 3.46 · 59,404 ratings · 5,044 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
The Inheritance of Loss
3.45 avg rating — 53,186 ratings — published 2005 — 93 editions
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orc...
3.47 avg rating — 6,042 ratings — published 1998 — 57 editions
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The Sermon in the Guava Tree
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The Loneliness of Sonia and...
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“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
tags: change, past, present
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“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
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“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
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