Shelf life: Looking at secular books

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Jan 2007
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THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
By Kiran Desai
Hamish Hamilton. 324 pages
ISBN 0 24114 348 9

Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize in October with this, her second startling and engaging novel. I’m not surprised that she won; this is a fantastic novel, full of intelligence, emotional reality and beautiful writing.

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