“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”
Source: Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.
“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”
Source: Inheritance of Loss
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.”
Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/talkasia.desai/ (April 24, 2007), CNN
“I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.”
an interview with kiran desai http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0599/desai/interview.html, Random House
Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117701272922375905.html (April 21, 2007) by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal
"I am envious of writers who are in India" http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/envious-of-writers-who-are-in-india-kiran-desai/1/180336.html (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today
“I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere”
Interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/oct/12/bookerprize2006.thebookerprize (12 October 2006), The Guardian
“The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.”
"I am envious of writers who are in India" http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/envious-of-writers-who-are-in-india-kiran-desai/1/180336.html (October 30, 2006), Interview by Nabanita Sircar, India Today