Kiran Desai

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September 03, 1971 in New Delhi, India

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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.

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Average rating: 3.28 · 17,660 ratings · 2,477 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Inheritance of Loss 3.27 avg rating — 16,291 ratings — published 2005 — 49 editions	My rating:
	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard 3.35 avg rating — 1,353 ratings — published 1998 — 23 editions	My rating:
	India Pack - 2003 by Kiran Desai, Manju Kapur 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India by Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai 3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Generation 1.5 by Ellen Harvey, Tom Finkelpearl, Kiran Desai 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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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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“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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“All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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