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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Fiction, Novel, India, Historical fiction, Asia, Literature, Contemporary
Condition is good; some spotting on pages and corners of cover and some pages are slightly bent.

In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalays lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the world. 

When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests. The nation fights itself. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world of conflicting desires-every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal. 

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