The Inheritance of LossOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 1 дек. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 384 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s chatty cook watches over the girl, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai’s new-sprung romance with her tutor, the household descends into chaos. The cook witnesses India’s hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge revisits his past and his role in Sai and Biju’s intertwining lives. In a grasping world of colliding interests and conflicting desires, every moment holds out the possibility for hope or betrayal. Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters and “uncannily beautiful” prose (O: The Oprah Magazine). “A book about tradition and modernity, the past and the future—and about the surprising ways both amusing and sorrowful, in which they all connect.” —The Independent |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
America arrived asked bamboo began better Bhutan Biju Biju's Bose boys Budhoo Campa Cola cheese chicken Cho Oyu cook cook's Darjeeling daughter Desai door ears English eyes face Father Booty feeling felt fool gate girl GNLF gone Gorkha Gorkhaland green card guns Gyan Gyan's Gymkhana Harish-Harry heart India Indian Inheritance of Loss jeep Jemubhai judge judge's Kalimpong Kanchenjunga Kiran Desai kitchen knew kukris ladies laughed leave Lepchas lived Lola and Noni looked Mutt Nepali never night Nimi nose Patel Piphit police remembered returned rice road Saeed Saeed Sai's screaming shouted side Sikkim Siliguri sister smell someone stopped sweet Teesta tell thing thought told took trees turned Uncle Potty veranda village waiting walked watched wife window worry