The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0871139294 Global Overview for this book
Registered by juvi of Dresden, Sachsen Germany on 11/17/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by juvi from Dresden, Sachsen Germany on Friday, November 17, 2006
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai's blossoming romance with her handsome tutor they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal.
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It took me a while to find out in which time the story was set, but this together with the frequent jumps back in time only made the story more interesting and vivid. This book seems to be mostly about humiliation - humiliation of immigrants in the west, of servants and Nepali by rich Indians, of women by men, of Indians by Nepali insurgents. This does not make it an easy read which I was not hoping for anyway. Desai's descriptions are very exact and thorough, so they might even be enough of a reason to read this book.

Journal Entry 2 by wingCaptainCarrotwing from Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, December 3, 2007
The book arrived today - thank you very much! It loooks interesting enough... but I don't know whether I can read it before Christmas.
If I remember right it is part of the Man Booker Prize Roundabout - I'd like to know whether ther e is a reading list.

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