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"Although it focuses on 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-1980s, it seems the best kind of post-9/11 novel."Desai, Kiran is the author of 'Inheritance of Loss', published 2006 under ISBN 9780802142818 and ISBN 0802142818.
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