THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS- KIRAN DESAI

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel

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 orphan 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, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world

‘A Magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness’ Hermione Lee, chair of the Man Booker Prize judges’Poised, elegant and assured

breaks out into extraordinary beauty’ The Times’Desai’s bold, original voice, and her ability to deal in a grand narratives with a deft comic touch that affectionately recalls some of the masters of Indian fiction, makes hers a novel to reread and remembered’ Independent