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The Inheritance of Loss

novel by Desai

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  • Desai, Kiran
    In Kiran Desai

    …years of work, she published The Inheritance of Loss (2006). Set in India in the mid-1980s, the novel has at its centre a Cambridge-educated Indian judge living out his retirement in Kalimpong, near the Himalayas, with his granddaughter until their lives are disrupted by Nepalese insurgents. The novel also interweaves…

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