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THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS – Novel by Kiran Desai

A dwelling on the slopes of the Himalayas, an unnamed cook and a bitch

Entering in this site, you can discover that Delhi is a bazaar full of riches, a labyrinth full by a choke of fumes. Rebuilt by many conquerors, you enthralls with the touch of a silk scarf or the scent of sandalwood soap. Here, a discarded beer bottle is reborn as the canvas for a hand-painted tableau of Hindu myths. At Dastkari Haat’s craft store, http://www.dastkarihaat.org/shops.php you too can feel good about your purchase (all proceeds go to a nonprofit).

Her first novel was published in 1998, and won a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35. KIRAN DESAI was born in New Delhi, inside a September day, in 1971. Her second novel (The Inheritance of Loss), became in 2006 an international best seller. She lived in India until age 15, after which her family moved to the United States. While working on her second novel, she lived a life that took her from New York to Mexico and India, and after seven years of work, she published her second special novel, set in India in the mid-1980s.

Is culture really as rooted as we think, or is it just skin like? A book by KIRAN DESAI talk you about the living between the East and the West. The novel “The Inheritance of Loss” flits from one character to another, through a narrative form acting out the sense of dislocation. The division of the narrative move through life at Cho Oyu and the strange house built by a Scotsman. At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga (in the Himalayas), lives an judge who wants to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter arrives on his doorstep. Inside this brillant novel, you can find a story of joy and despair. Its characters face choices that illuminate the consequences of colonialm.

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