by Kiran Desai · Motilal UK Books of India · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143102786
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«The Inheritance of Loss» is the novel by Kiran Desai, published by Motilal UK Books of India in paperback (340 pages, in English).
In an isolated house at the foot of Kanchenjunga, a bitter retired judge receives his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. The house cook worries about his son Biju, who seeks papers in New York restaurants. An insurgency on the Indo-Nepal border shakes their lives and brings to light the consequences of colonialism and inequality.
Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist for the Orange Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, Indian narrative, and book clubs.
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.
