The Resource The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
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The item The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green.When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories.--Inside front cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 324 p.
- Note
- Originially published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006
- Isbn
- 9780241143643
- Label
- The inheritance of loss
- Title
- The inheritance of loss
- Statement of responsibility
- Kiran Desai
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green.When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories.--Inside front cover
- Cataloging source
- VHEI
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Desai, Kiran
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Teenage girls
- Orphans
- Grandfathers
- Tutors and tutoring
- Grandparent and child
- Psychological fiction
- Ethnic relations
- Judges
- Older men
- Label
- The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
- Note
- Originially published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006
- Control code
- 000040976161
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 324 p.
- Isbn
- 9780241143643
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
- Note
- Originially published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006
- Control code
- 000040976161
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 324 p.
- Isbn
- 9780241143643
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
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