by Kiran Desai · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498381184
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«El legado de la pérdida» is the contemporary fiction novel by Kiran Desai, published by Salamandra in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
An old retired judge in a house at the foot of the Himalayas, with his granddaughter Sai and his cook, sees his world disrupted by the Nepalese insurgency. Meanwhile, the cook's son tries to make his way in New York. The novel weaves both shores together to explore displacement, colonial inheritance, and the tension between tradition and modernity.
El legado de la pérdida won the Man Booker Prize 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. The original English title is The Inheritance of Loss.
For readers of contemporary fiction looking for novels about India, emigration, and the weight of the past.
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
