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Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss

Desai鈥檚 novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe from the Himalayas to New York City to Cambridge

Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2006, Desai鈥檚 novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe from the Himalayas to New York City to Cambridge, a place of endless humiliations.

Reflecting the author鈥檚 own Indian-American upbringing the novel interweaves the grand disruptions of politics with the domestic lives and loves of three memorable characters, the morose Judge, his lovelorn granddaughter Sai and their devoted, long-suffering Cook.

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