The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s second novel (after Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard). The book was first published in 2006 and won the Man Booker Prize for that year as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007. The story is set in the mid-1980s in a Himalayan town in [...]
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Posted in Literature on March 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Story in 6 words
Posted in Literature, Muse on October 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (For sale: baby shoes, never worn.) and is said to have called it his best work. Wired magazine asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot. Here what they came up with One of the [...]
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