Since I'll soon be teaching The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai's Man Booker Prize-winning, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, I probably shouldn't review it in detail. I can affirm, however, that I will be reading her other novel (I strongly approve of novelists who turn out only one book per decade, which makes it ( Read more... )

          Also on my recent trip, I read the entirety of Jaspreet Singh's novel, Chef. This was warmly reviewed somewhere, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize; but a chief reason I picked it up is that I'm particularly underexposed to writing from India these days, and certainly haven't read a Sikh author for some time.
          It' ( Read more... )