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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1999
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness.Twenty years of failure ...



  • In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distracted...



  • A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years -- an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss“A novel ...




Award-Winning Books by Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss
2006 Man Booker Prize -- Novel
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kiran Desai has published 3 books.

The next book by Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in May 1999.

No. Kiran Desai does not write books in series.