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The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai.

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ISBN	9780141399362 (paperback)
Name	Desai, Kiran, 1971- author.
Title	The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai.
Published	Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, [2010]
	©2006
	Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, 2010.
	©2006
Description	324 pages ; 18 cm.
Summary	"In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green."" "When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories."--BOOK JACKET.
Awards note	Winner of the Man Booker prize 2006.
Subjects	Grandparent and child -- Fiction
	Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction
	Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
	Ethnic relations -- Fiction
	Teenage girls -- Fiction
	Grandfathers -- Fiction
	Older men -- Fiction
	Orphans -- Fiction
	Kanchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Series	Popular Penguins
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Domestic fiction . Ethnic relations -- Fiction . Grandfathers -- Fiction . Grandparent and child -- Fiction . Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction . Kanchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction . Older men -- Fiction . Orphans -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . Teenage girls -- Fiction . Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Desai, Kiran, 1971- . Series: Popular Penguins .

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