The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai
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
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 336
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Weight:
- 238 g