Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Visit Libero WebOPAC . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai.

Catalogue Information
Field name Details
Record Number 667007
ISBN 9780141399362 (pbk.)
Author Desai, Kiran, 1971-
Title The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai.
Publisher/Date Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, 2010, c2006.
Pagination etc. 324 p. ; 18 cm.
Series Popular Penguins
Summary Note "In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are claimed by his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS on an elusive search for a green card that "was not even green."" "When an Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's exploration of the many incarnations and facets of a romance with her Nepali tutor, and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they are forced to consider their colliding interests. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own journey and role in their intertwining histories."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Grandparent and child -- Fiction
Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction
Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
Ethnic relations -- Fiction
Teenage girls -- Fiction
Grandfathers -- Fiction
Older men -- Fiction
Orphans -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Kanchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Shelf Location F DESA
Catalogue Information 667007 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 667007 Top of page .