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The Inheritance of Loss

(2005)
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Awards
2007 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)
2006 Booker Prize
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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