Description
In a crumbling house nestled at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge seeks solitude until his orphaned granddaughter Sai unexpectedly arrives, disrupting his carefully ordered isolation. As the judge's cook tends to the household, his mind drifts across continents to his son Biju, struggling through the underbelly of New York's restaurant world, creating a poignant geography of longing and displacement. Kiran Desai's Man Booker Prize-winning novel weaves together intimate family struggles with the larger historical forces of colonialism and globalization, exploring how the past reverberates through the present. Through her richly drawn characters and luminous prose, Desai illuminates the profound consequences of cultural collision and the universal human search for belonging in a fractured world. A masterwork of contemporary fiction that captures both the particular sorrows of a family and the universal struggles of a generation caught between worlds.
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paperback
Grove Press
Published Jan 1, 2006
357 pages
ISBN: 9780802142818
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Details
First Published
2006
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.