- Booker Prize 2006 · Winner
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai (born 1971)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Inheritance of Loss
Penguin · United Kingdom · 16 April 2026 · Paperback · 336 pages
The Inheritance of Loss
Atlantic Monthly Press · United States · 17 January 2006 · Hardcover · 336 pages
The Inheritance of Loss
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2006
The Inheritance of Loss
Grove Press · United States · 13 May 2025 · Paperback · 384 pages
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High in the north-east Himalayas, under Kanchenjunga, an embittered retired judge shares a remote, decaying house with his cook and wants only to be left in peace, still tormented by what he once did and was. His orphaned granddaughter Sai comes to live there and loses her heart to her tutor, though they come from different worlds and believe different things. The cook's thoughts, meanwhile, are on his son, who moves from one New York restaurant kitchen to another among migrants from across the globe, staying just out of reach of the immigration officials and looking for a place to belong. Around the house, unrest and insurgency build, setting past against present and nationalism and love at odds.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India, United States
- First published
- 2006
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
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9780871139290 (Atlantic Monthly Press, United States)
9780241143483 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)
9780802163998 (Grove Press, United States)
9781405985420 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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