The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Desai, Kiran
ISBN: 9780141027289
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Aug 2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog.
Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...
ISBN: 9780141027289
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Aug 2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog.
Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...
