Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner
(2014)
Book Chapter
Allington, D. (2014). Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner. In O. P. Dwivedi, & L. Lau (Eds.), Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Marketplace (119-139). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Extract in lieu of an abstract: Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.