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Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

The New Statesman: politics and culture

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Limitations of the Western Realist Novel

They cite Amitav Ghosh on the novel's limits, and Desai argues for including mysticism and apocalyptic imagination in fiction.

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