Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

General Knowledge

Question:

Who is the author of ‘The Inheritance of Loss’?

Options:

Arundhati Roy

Kiran Desai

Chetan Bhagat

Jhumpa Lahiri

Correct Answer:

Kiran Desai

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) - Kiran Desai

The second book written by Indian novelist Kiran Desai is titled The Inheritance of Loss. It earned the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007. It also won the Booker Prize that year. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Nashtangalude Anantharaavakaasham, Jivanresha, and KavitaSangrah are other books of Kiran Desai.