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Kiran Desai
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Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, and was educated in India, in England, and the United States. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss.

Books by Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

The soaring new novel from Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss

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