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Format:
Book
Title:
The inheritance of loss
ISBN:
9780871139290

9780739472972

9780802142818
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2006.
Physical Description:
324 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.

Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated Himalayan hill town.
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