Kiran Desai wins Booker

The news is out. Another Indian has won the Man Booker prize. Kiran Desai's 'The Inheritance of Loss' is "a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness," acording to head judge, Hermione Lee. Kirna succeeds where her mother, Anita Desai, was not able to. Anita was shortlisted thrice but failed to win the prize.
The book "is a magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness" according to Lee. This is great for Indian literature. Way to go Kiran.