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Title Name - The Inheritance of Loss
Author - Kiran Desai
ISBN - 143101226
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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 judges 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 countrys place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sais 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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