Books (Traditional General Knowledge) (Part-I)

41. Who is the author of "Interpreter of Maladies"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 16.01.2017 (Shift-III)]

(a) Jhumpa Lahiri
(b) Amish Tripathi
(c) Ravinder Singh
(d) Salman Rushdie

Correct Answer: (a) Jhumpa Lahiri

Solution:The book 'Interpreter of Maladies' was authored by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in the year 1999.

42. Who is the author of the book titled 'Unaccustomed Earth'? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 17.09.2017 (Shift-I)]

(a) H. L. Dattu
(b) Jhumpa Lahiri
(c) Narinder Nath Vohra
(d) Avinash Chander

Correct Answer: (b) Jhumpa Lahiri

Solution:The author of the book 'Unaccustomed Earth' is Jhumpa Lahiri.

43. Who is the author of 'The Inheritance of Loss'? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 3.02.2017 (Shift-II)]

(a) Sunjeev Sahota
(b) Anne Enright
(c) Shobha De
(d) Kiran Desai

Correct Answer: (d) Kiran Desai

Solution:The novel 'The Inheritance of Loss' is authored by Kiran Desai. It was published in 2006.

44. Who is the author of 'The Inheritance of Loss'? [S.S.C. Online CPO SI (T-I) 10.11.2022 (Shift-II)]

(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) Chetan Bhagat
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri

Correct Answer: (b) Kiran Desai

Solution:The author of 'The Inheritance of Loss' is Kiran De-sai. The novel was first published in 2006 and won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

45. Which of the following novels is written by Kiran Desai? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 02.06.2022 (Shift-II)]

(a) The Golden House
(b) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(c) Midnight's Children
(d) The Inheritance of Loss

Correct Answer: (d) The Inheritance of Loss

Solution:Kiran Desai writes the Inheritance of Loss. The Inheritance of Loss (2006), became an international bestseller and won the 2006 Booker Prize. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) is also written by Kiran Desai.

46. Who is the author of "The Lowland"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 25.01.2017 (Shift-III)]

(a) Amitav Ghosh
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri
(d) Aravind Adiga

Correct Answer: (c) Jhumpa Lahiri

Solution:'The Lowland' is written by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was published in 2013.

47. Who wrote the book "The Broken Wing"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 18.01.2017 (Shift-l)]

(a) APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) Kiran Bedi
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Premchand

Correct Answer: (c) Sarojini Naidu

Solution:'The Broken Wing: Songs of love, death and destiny' is a book written by Sarojini Naidu in 1915-1916. The book comprises songs about love, death and destiny. She stopped writing after the Jallianwala Bagh incident.

48. Who is the author of "The Hungry Tide"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 7.02.2017 (Shift-l)]

(a) Amitav Ghosh
(b) Mitali Meelan
(c) Ravinder Singh
(d) Sudha Murty

Correct Answer: (a) Amitav Ghosh

Solution:The book 'The Hungry Tide' is authored by Amitav Ghosh.

49. Who among the following has written the book 'The God of Small Things'? [S.S.C. Online CPO S.I. (T-I) 11.11.2022 (Shift-III)]

(a) RK Narayan
(b) Amitav Ghosh
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Arundhati Roy

Correct Answer: (d) Arundhati Roy

Solution:The God of Small Things was Roy's first book. She began writing the manuscript for The God of Small Things in 1992 and finished four years later, in 1996. Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.

50. Who wrote the book "The God of Small Things"? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 19.01.2017 (Shift-I) S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 19.03.2020 (Shift-III) S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 21.09.2017 (Shift-II)]

(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Amartya Sen
(d) Arun Shourie

Correct Answer: (a) Arundhati Roy

Solution:The book 'The God of Small Things' is written by Arundhati Roy.