The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai.
By: Desai, Kiran
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Publisher: London : Penguin, 2007Description: 324 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780141027289 (pbk.).Subject(s): Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction | Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction | Ethnic relations -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | Grandfathers -- Fiction | Older men -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Kanchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: 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 orphaned 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, putting the past against the resent, nationalism against love a small place against the trouble of a bid world. -Back cover.
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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 orphaned 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, putting the past against the resent, nationalism against love a small place against the trouble of a bid world. -Back cover.