The inheritance of loss

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In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated Himalayan hill town.

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Domestic fiction
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations -- Fiction
Fiction
Grandfathers
Grandfathers -- Fiction
Grandparent and child
Grandparent and child -- Fiction
Judges
Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction
Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
Literature
Older men
Older men -- Fiction
Orphans
Orphans -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Retirement
Teenage girls
Teenage girls -- Fiction
Tutors and tutoring
Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction

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Simhan, Meera,narrator
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9780802142818
9781415939697
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