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The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

2

awards won

28

score

#48 of 8,085 books · #29 in Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2006). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

In the northeastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step ahead of U.S. immigration, this is far from easy. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens the blossoming romance between Sai and her handsome tutor, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. And the judge must revisit his own journey and his role in a world of conflicting desires—every moment holding out the possibility of hope or betrayal.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9789373039855
Genre
Fiction
Topics
ImmigrationColonialism and its legacyClass and inequalityPolitical insurgencyFamily and identity

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