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The 2008 Award

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss

 

The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Chicago Public Library, USA
  • National Library Service of Barbados, Bridgetown, Barbados
  • Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek Ghent, Belgium
  • Tweebronnen Openbare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium
  • Biblioteca Demonstrativa de Brasilia, Brazi.
  • Knjižnica Otona Župancica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Stavanger Bibliotek og Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway
  • Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic
  • Cape Town Central Library,South Africa
  • Kenya National Library Service, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Stadtbibliothek Leipzig, Germany
  • Gemeentebibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:


Hamish Hamilton Ltd

ISBN: 9780241143643 &

9780241143483

Penguin

ISBN: 9780141028729 & 9780143101222

Grove / Atlantic Inc

ISBN: 9780802165053 &

9780871139290

 

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives and embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching form one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s Brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequence of colonialism as it collides with the modern world.

(From Publisher)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KIRAN DESAI was born in India in 1971. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Educated in India, England, and the United States, she received her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

This is an absorbing and informative novel on a grand scale that exposes the turbulent political landscape of post-colonial India and its interaction with the rest of the world.

The Inheritance of Loss is set in India in the mid 1980’s and tells the story of an old embittered judge. The characters struggle with their cultural identity.

 

 

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