Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss, Booker Prize winner in 2006.
Here's a Reading Guide and an excerpt.
- Reader's Guide at Publisher's Site
- Amazon customer reviews from 1-star to 5-star
- kiran desai inheritance of loss - Google Search
- Google interactive map for places in the book
- Google lets you read a lot of the book this funny way
NPR : Review (Audio file)
NPR : Kiran Desai Reads from her book:: also, an excerpt to read
NPR : Kiran and Anita Desai, with Terry Gross on Fresh Air (Audio)
'The Inheritance of Loss,' New York Times Book Review
Review from The Hindu
BBC NEWS Review: The Inheritance of Loss
Sai Speak: blogger's write-up
Lotus Reads: another blogger's review, with attached comments
Links to Reviews of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Interview with The Hindu
- Jabberwock (blog): Kiran Desai interview #1 and #2
- Another interview after the prize
- 'Human warmth is such an innate part of India' (long interview)
- Article about Desai
- BBC NEWS Kiran Desai claims Booker title
- Worms In The Cottage Cheese :: How the Town Reacted
- Kiran Desai's India and its great divides - Arts & Leisure (Article)
- Salman Rushdie, March 1997 essay on Indian writing
Short biography of Kiran Desai.
BBC NEWS |Booker profile: Kiran Desai : Her life and career
BookBrowse Links (excerpt, interview, reading guide)
Kiran Desai ... many links
Darjeeling Forum :: Inheritance of Loss :: Darjeeling message board discusses the book
Kalimpong Calling... making the journey :: in her footsteps
More links:: REVIEWS
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
entertainment/5413704.stm - http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/
10/01/stories/ 2006100100280100.htm - http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/
inheritance_of_loss/
BIOGRAPHY
READER'S GUIDE
PEOPLE IN KALIMPONG REACT TO DEPICTION OF THEIR TOWN
5 comments:
I didn't take the time initially to deeply read INHERITANCE OF LOSS. Then I rethought the whole thing and really dug in. Thank you for getting me straightened out. It is really a wonderful story, really spelled out in the 6th of these links, a short video "View of Kiran Desai/Inheritance of Loss".
I just finished "the inheritance of loss" and I really was blown away by the writing and I thought the storyline was excellent.
I had started to read the May selection The Inheritance of Loss, but quickly put it down as it was so difficult to read.
I think this is the month you all read K.Desai - anyway, I'm in the midst of it. I started a book club for the summer months here at the condo and
since I started the club I suggested we read the same book you all are reading.
I miss you all. I am having a hard time w/ Desai - I
read alot of the reviews from other readers and noted that while many were so favorable others were right where I am. . .it just isn't working for me. Cannot say whether it's the abrupt change from one character to another, which usually wouldn't do me in - but somehow I feel like I am reading a superficial description of Sai and the next sentence is someone else - for no particular reason. I am clearly NOT post-modern, if this is... and I have failed to get a feeling of there being anything to build to. Could this be more like glimpses than like a novel?
I sure have learned that it's hard, but good,for me to read about totally foreign cultures - India - then there was Snow, and Saving Fish.
Maybe if Kiran Desai had written about the years she knows personally of - I think she's pretty young and the book is set in the Reagan years. Her writing is quite terrific - it's like there's great gift wrapping but the box is empty, to me. I have to admit that I'm just a sucker for fiction set in the USA - even better if it's set in NYC.
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