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The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai''s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel.

High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.

The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook''s heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.

Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world.

''A Magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness'' Hermione Le

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The Inheritance of Loss

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 28 August 2008
      ISBN-13 9780141027289
      978-0141027289
      ISBN-10 0141027282
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai''s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel.

      High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.

      The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook''s heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.

      Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world.

      ''A Magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness'' Hermione Le

      Trade Review
      'hasodfa' - agbod;ahusd, afo;dgua;

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