Bookers of the winning feather flock together. The bescarved Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai made a happy stand at the New York Indian Film Festival before heading in to watch t...
Photograph by Maria Boyadjieva
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Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her novel, 'The Inheritance of Loss'
Narendra Bisht
Kiran Desai, the winner of the Man Booker Prize, displays her book after a ceremony at the Guildhall in London,
Tuesday, October 10. The India-born novelist scooped the 50,000 po...
Saris or jeans, salwar kameez or skirts, it's clearly only a matter of personal preference: it is ill-advised of women in the public eye to play into misogynist hands by picking on other women
Kiran Desai becomes the youngest woman ever to win the Man Booker prize for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss — a prize that has eluded her thrice-nominated mother
Now that another semi-Delhi girl is shortlisted for the Booker, perhaps it can be revealed how Ms Roy faked the famous "Gosh!" as well as her look of surprise?
Desai's eye for detail is meticulous, but her rich fund of humour makes her images delightfully spontaneous. The luxurious prose almost makes up for the novel's lack of emotional heft.