The Inheritance of Loss

Name: The Inheritance of Loss
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Bol Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran DesaiÂ’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the author Published to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judgeÂ’s cook watches over her distractedly, but his thoughts are usually on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. As her charactersÂ’ lives overlap and intertwine, Kiran DesaiÂ’s brilliant novel illuminates a story of joy and despair, as well as the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism.

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran DesaiÂ’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the author Published to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judgeÂ’s cook watches over her distractedly, but his thoughts are usually on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. As her charactersÂ’ lives overlap and intertwine, Kiran DesaiÂ’s brilliant novel illuminates a story of joy and despair, as well as the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism.

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