Kiran Desai
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born
September 03, 1971
gender
female
place of birth
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. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai avg rating 3.24 — 7,571 ratings — published 1999 31 editions |
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai avg rating 3.41 — 495 ratings — published 1998 18 editions |
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Aids Sutra: Untold Stories from India by Kiran Desai avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2008 |
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India Pack - 2003 by Kiran Desai, Manju Kapur avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2003 |
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Generation 1.5 by Valerie Smith, Tom Finkelpearl, Kiran Desai, Suketu Mehta avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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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)
— Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
"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)
— Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
"No human had ever seen an adult giant squid alive, and though they had eyes as big as apples to scope the dark of the ocean, theirs was a solitude so profound they might never encounter another of their tribe...Could fulfilment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfilment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself."
— Kiran Desai
— Kiran Desai
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