Booker Prize Winner Announced

Kiran Desai won this years Booker Prize with her book 'The Inheritance of Loss'. She is the youngest female to win the £50,000 prize. Judges praised her book as "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness". It seems she has learnt well from her three-times nominated mother, Anita Desai.
The Inheritance of Loss tells the story of a Cambridge-educated Indian judge who lives a reclusive retirement in the foothills of the Himalayas. But the arrival of his orphaned teenage granddaughter, and his cook's son's attempts to keep one step ahead of the US immigration department, threatens to shatter his peace.
Though I have yet to read this, I'm sure that it will be brilliant and I hope to pick up a copy in the near future
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