Kiran Desai is the youngest woman (at age of 35) to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction. See a collection of book reviews:

• Luminous family saga bridges eras, cultures by Ann Harleman @ The Boston Glode (20060104)
• "The Inheritance of Loss": A moving tale of honesty and horror by Bharti Kirchner @ The Seattle Times (20060120)
  
• Review by Poornima Apte @ MostlyFiction (20060129)
  
• Hearts in search of home by Marjorie Kehe @ Powell's Books (20060130)
  
• Wounded by the West by Pankaj Mishra @ The New York Times (20060212)
• Empires, family in flux by Sandip Roy @ San Francisco Chronicle (20060226)
• Review by Fiona Pryor @ BBC News (20061010)
• Review by James Ley @ The Age (20061020)

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