The Inheritance of Loss
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A Booker Prize-winning novel exploring identity, migration, family, love, class and the lingering effects of colonialism.
| Author Name |
Kiran Desai |
|---|---|
| ISBN |
9780143423904 |
| Year of Publication |
2015 |
| Pages |
336 |
| Language |
English |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
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ISBN: 9780143423904
Year Of Publication: 2015
Pages : 336
Language : English
Binding : Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Set partly in the Himalayan foothills and partly in New York, the novel brings together characters whose lives are shaped by political unrest, cultural displacement and personal longing. Kiran Desai examines the tensions between tradition and modernity, privilege and poverty, and belonging and alienation.
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Kiran Desai is an Indian author and the daughter of acclaimed novelist Anita Desai. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her other major work is Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
The Inheritance of Loss centres on a retired judge living in an isolated house near Mount Kanchenjunga with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and their cook. While Sai develops a relationship with her tutor, the cook dreams of his son Biju, who is struggling to build a life as an undocumented immigrant in New York. Against a backdrop of political unrest and social change, their stories reveal the emotional and human consequences of displacement, inequality and the search for belonging.
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