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Sai lives in india with a strict and often distracted grandfather. This collection of critical essays on kiran desai s the inheritance of loss provides indepth intellectual and critical analysis of the text from a broad scholarly perspective. The books language, scenarios and juxtapositions are funny, threatening, vivid and tender all at the same time. Kiran desai, at age 35, is the youngest woman ever to win britains prestigious man booker prize, for her novel the inheritance of loss. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters and uncannily beautiful prose o. Binnie kirshenbaum, author of an almost perfect moment. Inheritance of loss five stars for the book and five stars for the reader. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters. She is the daughter of the noted author anita desai.
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