Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize in 2006 for which of the following novels?
- A.Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
- B.Fasting, Feasting
- C.The Inheritance of Loss
- D.Clear Light of Day
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, The Inheritance of Loss, set partly in Kalimpong at the foot of the Himalayas and partly among Indian immigrants in New York. It won the Booker Prize in 2006, and Kiran Desai was at the time the youngest woman to have won the award.
Option A, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, is Kiran Desai's own first novel, published in 1998, which won the Betty Trask Award and not the Booker. Options B and D, Fasting, Feasting and Clear Light of Day, are novels by her mother Anita Desai, who was shortlisted for the Booker three times without ever winning it. The mother and daughter pair is a favourite of paper setters, so the two lists should be kept apart in your notes.
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