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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
A novel of depth and emotion, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first.
Atlantic Monthly Press
January 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0871139294
Hardcover
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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.
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