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The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins
  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141399362
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 324
  • RRP: $14.99

The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins

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High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphaned granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, and the cook's heart is with his son, working far away in a New York restaurant.
Meanwhile, around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change . . .
  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141399362
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 324
  • RRP: $14.99
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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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