Private Passions - 16/09/2007

Michael Berkeley talks to Indian-born author Kiran Desai, who won the 2006 Man Booker Prize with her novel The Inheritance of Loss. The daughter of novelist Anita Desai, she has lived in America since she was a teenager, and her books delve into the culture shock experienced by immigrants from the relatively poor East to the wealthy West. She is deeply interested in music, and her choices range from Bach played by Glenn Gould and Pablo Casals, to two masters of the guitar, three contrasting pieces of Indian music and the Cabo Verde phenomenon Cesaria Evora.