Kiran Desai
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The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
Kiran Desai
- 2006 Booker winner
- 2006 NBCC–Fiction winner
- 2007 Orange shortlist
- 2006 Kiriyama-Fiction finalist
- Score: 32.56
Kiran Desai’s first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life.
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to…
