Publisher Description

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006In 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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At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge's life is changed by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. A Nepalese insurgency threatens her romance with her tutor, and the judge must revisit his past and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires. A brilliant, bittersweet family saga and a powerful reflection of modern times, which won last year's Man Booker Prize, and was book of the year for a range of newspapers. 'Affecting and endearing, full of laughter and tears' Independent

Author Biography

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York. She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

Review

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Prizes

Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Writer of the Year 2007
Short-listed for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007

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