The inheritance of loss
By: Kiran Desai
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780802142818
Subjects: Judges; Retirement; Psychological fiction; Teenage girls; Grandparent and child; Orphans; Ethnic relations; Fiction; Grandfathers; Tutors and tutoring; Older men; Domestic fiction
Description: In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judgeʼs cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desaiʼs brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world. Winner of 2006 Man Booker Prize.