What makes Desai’s fiction so fascinating is the vast canvas of our contemporary society in which the themes of alienation, cultural clashes, displacement and exile are presented in the broad perspective of globalization. The sensitive socio-political issues concerning hybridity, insurgency, immigration, inter-cultural communication, identity crisis, loneliness, multiculturalism, poverty, racial discrimination, social realism and socio-cultural realism have been discussed in her novels. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) has presented different perspectives of life. In her second, Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006) she has analysed several current issues of modern civilization. In this paper, I wish to explore and evaluate the themes and techniques of Kiran Desai in her fiction.
Research Scholar, P. G. Department of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
