In the recent past, the Booker Prizes have featured many writers of Indian origin, but at no time has an Indian and a Pakistani writer are together in the running. Initial reports suggest that neither are favorites to win.
I have started on Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, last year's Booker Prize winner and I must hesitantly admit that the book definitely does not smack of greatness. But it is early days yet!
There was a printing error on the second page itself! Alas!
Grabbing time to read and write from an otherwise hectic day is how I create my own space of sanity and peace.
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- Chandini Santosh
- Kannur, Kerala, India
- I'm the author of two novels --- The House of Oracles & Searching for Durga Sabyasachi. I've three solo collections of poetry too.
Grabbing time to read and write from an otherwise hectic day is how I create my own space of sanity and peace.
My Favourite Books
- A Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Angela's Ashes,'Tis, Teacherman by Frank McCourt
- Anna Karenina, War and Peace by Tolstoy
- Blindness, Seeing by Jose Saramago
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Crime and Punishment, Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
- Fratricides, Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Identity by Milan Kundera
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Metamorphosis by Kafka
- My Name is Red, The Black Book, Istanbul, The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
- One hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Gabriel Marquez
- Plague by Albert Camus
- The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Gospel According To Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
- The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- Two Paradises, The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
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