The inheritance of loss
By: Kiran Desai.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Grandparent and child -- Fiction; Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction; Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction; Ethnic relations -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Older men -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.

Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated Himalayan hill town.