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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Grove Press
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0802142818
EAN: 9780802142818
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction | Contemporary
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 another, trying to stay a step ahead of
the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the
world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains
threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome
Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos,
they, too, are forced to confront their colliding
interests. The nation fights itself. The cook witnesses
the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge
must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world
of conflicting desires-every moment holding out the
possibility for hope or betrayal. A novel of depth and
emotion, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the
grand promise established by her first.
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