Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (2006)

Author and Production History

• Kiran Desai

Publishing History

• First published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton in 2006

Plot Summary

• One: February 1986. Kalimpong, Northeaster Himalayas. The judge plays chess, watches his female dog called Mutt and waits for his tea, while the cook tries to find something to serve it with, and the seventeen-year-old Sai awaits a mathematics tutor called Gyan with whom she has had one-year-long love affair. They are robbed and humiliated by a juvenile Nepalese guerilla gang.
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