The Inheritance of Loss

Title: The Inheritance of Loss Author: Kiran Desai Fiction: 1694872 ISBN: 9780802163998 Publisher: Grove Press Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Fiction | Literary Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai's extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the author Published to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, but his thoughts are usually on his son, Biju, who is hopscotchi