A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity
The Inheritance of Loss
Written by Kiran Desai
- Winner
- The Man Booker Prize 2006
- Published by Hamish Hamilton
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Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for this funny and politically acute family saga about a peaceful retirement under siege from all sides
In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in an isolated and crumbling house, lives an embittered old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York
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