Monday, October 29, 2007, 7 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library
First Floor South Campus

Kiran Desai is the author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006, given in Great Britain for the best novel of the year. In 2006 The Inheritance of Loss was called “an extraordinary new novel … lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” by the New York Times Book Review in a front-cover review. The Inheritance of Loss also won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in 2007. The wisdom and humor of Ms. Desai’s writing have prompted universal acclaim.

Ms. Desai, who is the daughter of distinguished novelist Anita Desai, was born in 1971, educated in the United States, England and India, and currently divides her time between Brooklyn and India.