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The Inheritance of Loss
  • Published: 28 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141027289
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99

The Inheritance of Loss

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28 Aug 2008
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006

In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog.

Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...
  • Published: 28 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141027289
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Praise for The Inheritance of Loss

Marvellous . . . Kiran Desai romanticises neither home nor elsewhere . . . Heeds not only the brave new world, but also the country left behind

Lionel Shriver, Financial Times

Affecting and endearing, full of laughter and tears

Independent

Seldom has an author offered so fearless a glimpse into how ordinary lives are caught up in the collision of modernity and cultural tradition, and in the schisms and fanaticism that all too often ensue

Elle