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Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Books by Kiran Desai

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss

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The Inheritance of Loss

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006

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