Kiran is mostly known for her Inheritance of Loss (Man Booker Winner), and that being (or seeming to be) the kind of famous-but-heavy-and-depressing book I generally tend to avoid, I was a bit reluctant to begin this one, but turns out I needn’t have worried this is a hidden gem of a book (on an aside.why isn’t stuff like this more famous?).Īnyway, Sampath Chawla, our hero, is born, rather auspiciously, on the very night that it begins raining after a long drought in the village of Shahkot, and everyone is convinced of the baby’s future greatness. I haven’t read any of Kiran Desai’s work before, although I have read one of her mother’s, Anita Desai’s Fasting and Feasting.
I stumbled upon this one while sifting through Indian authors on Goodreads.
Ok, so I’ve been on a bit of an India spree of late, mostly due to the Brunch Book Challenge.
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