Books by Kiran Desai and Complete Book Reviews

Kiran Desai, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (324p) ISBN 978-0-87113-929-0
This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard ) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot
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Kiran Desai. Hogarth, $32 (704p) ISBN 978-0-3077-0015-5
Booker winner Desai returns 19 years after The Inheritance of Loss with an elegant bildungsroman of two Indian people and their convergence in the early 2000s U.S. The reader meets the pair before they meet each other, when they’re unhappy with...
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