The Inheritance of Loss
  • Published: 28 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141925738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Inheritance of Loss

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28 Aug 2008
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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: 9780141925738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, and was educated in India, in England, and the United States. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss.

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Praise for The Inheritance of Loss

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

Lionel Shriver, Financial Times

Affecting and endearing, full of laughter and tears

Elle

Affecting and endearing, full of laughter and tears

Independent
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