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An edition of The inheritance of loss (2005)

The inheritance of loss

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.6 (5 ratings)
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  • 9 Have read

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.

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Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
English
Pages
324

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Man Booker Prize Winner Judges Retirement Teenage girls Grandparent and child Orphans award:man_booker_prize=2006 Ethnic relations Fiction award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2006 Grandfathers Tutors and tutoring Older men National Book Critics Circle Award Winner award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction Grandparents, fiction India, fiction Fiction, psychological Large type books Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Fictional Works Einwanderer Familie Fremdheit Fiction, family life, general

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Himalaya Mountains Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India)

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2008, Wheeler Pub.
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2007, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books
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2007, Paragon
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2006, Grove Press
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The inheritance of loss
2005, Atlantic Monthly Press
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New York
Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3554.E82 I54 2005, PS3554.E82I54 2005, PS3554.E82 I54 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
324

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3428061M
ISBN 10
0871139294
LCCN
2005052416
OCLC/WorldCat
61228799
LibraryThing
185271
Goodreads
149269

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL97945W

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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.

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