Although it focuses on the fate of a few powerless individuals, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence. Despite being set in the mid-1980’s, it seems the best kind of post-9/11 novel.
The above paragraph begins the review published last February in The New York Times Book Review for The Inheritance of Loss
The novel by the 35-year-old Desai was named the Booker Prize winner this evening. She is the award’s youngest winner ever.