By Kamal Kumar Raul

The 2006 guy Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, for her novel, The Inheritance of Loss, and the recipient of 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Jhumpa Lahiri, are post-colonial immigrant migration writers whose writings are fabulously wealthy in clash of sophistication and culture.

Jhumpa Lahiri's debut brief tale assortment, Interpreter of Maladies took the literary international via typhoon and gained her accolades from the critics. It used to be via her bestselling first novel, The Namesake, a finely wrought, deeply relocating kinfolk drama that illustrates her signature issues: the immigrant adventure, the conflict of tradition, and the tangled ties among the generations. Her most recent literary piece, The Lowland offers a pleasant mix of immigrant soreness and pensiveness.

Kiran Desai’s comedian myth, Hullabaloo within the Guava Orchard issues out various conflicts of sophistication and tradition within the spirit of R.K. Narayan's humour, irony and satire with Chaucerian mood. Her The Inheritance of Loss is “a terrific novel of human breadth and knowledge, comedian tenderness and strong political acuteness”, acknowledged Hermione Lee, the chairperson of the Jury of the guy Booker Prize for 2006.

The characters within the novel are trapped among cultures—the dominating western and the degenerated local counterpart—and the author leaves their enigma unsolved, like E.M. Forster in A Passage to India, in extensive experience.

The booklet can be beneficial for the scholars, and lecturers of English literature, Indian English literature and diasporic writing, and researchers in those fields.

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