Kiran Desai Bags Booker


Kiran Desai , an Indian born author bags Booker prize for her novel 'An Inheritance of Loss'. She is daughter of well known Indian novelist Anita Desai, who has been nominated for the prize three times but never won it.

The 336-page novel 'The Inheritance of Loss' explores contemporary issues like multiculturalism, fundamentalism and terrorist violence with the narrative of its protagonist Sai who is a teenage orphan girl. She lost her parents in an accident. The location of the novel shuttles between India and New York.

Kiran Desai, who is daughter of noted Indian novelist Anita Desai, is the youngest female author to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize, she is 35. She is the second female Indian author after Arundhati Roy to win this award. Arundhati won this prize at the age of 36 in 1997 for her debut novel 'The God of Small Things'.