The inheritance of loss

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Artikelnummer: 51589

Auteur: Kiran Desai

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006!

In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in an isolated and crumbling house, there lives an embittered old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy.
When a Nepalese insurgency threatens the blossoming romance between Sai and her handsome tutor, they, too, are forced to consider their colliding interests. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires – every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal.

Kiran Desai was born in India on 3rd September 1971 and is currently a student at Columbia University’s Creative Writing Course. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard received accolades from many notable figures and an excerpt was featured in the New Yorker India Fiction issue, and in Mirrorwork, Salman Rushdie’s controversial anthology of 50 years of Indian writing. It went on to win the Betty Trask Award.