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The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss

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Written by

Kiran Desai

Narrated by

Meera Simhan

Average: (1 votes)

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Edition:
Unabridged (Penguin Audio)
Length:
12 hours, 14 minutes
File Size:
336 MB (121 files)
Published:
April 2007

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Summary

Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast gulf between economic classes in her second novel. In the 1980s, a Nepalese uprising threatens a reclusive, Cambridge-educated Indian judge living in the Himalayan foothills; his orphaned teenage granddaughter (who loves one of the Nepalese insurgents); and their miserable, put-upon cook, whose only reason for living, his son, suffers both loneliness and privation as an illegal immigrant in New York.

Quotes from the Critics

"Although it focuses on fate of a few powerless individuals, Kiran Desai's extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence. Despite being set in the mid-1980s, it seems the best kind of post-9/11 novel." - New York Times Book Review

"Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory." - New Yorker

"[S]tunning....IN this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a 'better life,' when one person's wealthy means another's poverty." (starred review) - Publishers Weekly

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