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Lavanya Sankaran is the author of the internationally acclaimed short story collection 'The Red Carpet', which spent two years on the best-seller lists.

Her debut novel 'The Hope Factory', hit the Number 1 spot on Amazon India and was also selected by Amazon UK as a Top Pick. Lavanya's writing is published in over 15 countries and has won several awards, including Barnes and Noble's Discover New Writers, and Poets and Writers' Best First Fiction Award. Her opinion pieces and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Atlantic, among others.

Lavanya sponsors the annual Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for fiction writers at the Sangam Writers Residency. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and has lived between New York ...more

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Average rating: 3.38 · 1,280 ratings · 227 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hope Factory 3.40 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories 3.36 avg rating — 626 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bombay This 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Carpet 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.”
― Lavanya Sankaran, The Hope Factory

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“Namaskara, saar,” he said as he clambered into the passenger seat next to Anand and pulled a large satellite photograph out of a file. “Gugalarth,” he said,”
― Lavanya Sankaran, The Hope Factory: A Novel

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