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1 week ago

Brilliantly human': Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

All of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from other people, said Doyle. In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human.
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New books this week: Tales from Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, and new translations

New releases include high-profile, unsettling works by Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood, international translations by Annie Ernaux and Yoko Tawada, and Kiran Desai's 20-year novel.
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1 week ago

Kiran Desai: I never thought it would happen in the US'

Kiran Desai spent nearly two decades crafting a 700-page novel about modern love and societal divides, producing roughly 5,000 pages of notes.
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