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The Inheritance of Loss

Af: Kiran Desai Engelsk Paperback

The Inheritance of Loss

Af: Kiran Desai Engelsk Paperback
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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

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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

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780141027289
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0141027282
Kategori: New York
Udg. Dato: 28 aug 2008
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 133mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 28 aug 2008
Forfatter(e): Kiran Desai
Forfatter(e) Kiran Desai

Kategori New York

ISBN-13 9780141027289

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 133mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 28 aug 2008

Oplagsdato 28 aug 2008

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd