The Inheritance of Loss by Desai, Kiran (9780141027289) | Browns Books
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The Inheritance of Loss

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In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog.

There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog.

Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change.

For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...

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Penguin Books Ltd
0141027282 / 9780141027289
Paperback / softback
813.54
28/08/2008
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
324 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly; London: Hamish Hamilton, 2006.

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