Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize 2006 for her book called "The Inheritance of Loss". Kiran Desai is only 35 years old and is the youngest winner of the prize.
I have a paper back copy that was published by Penguin Books in January 2000. It has 256 pages.
The ISBN # 9780143055686
Time Line: India during Colonel Times.
The Plot:
The story begins in the Himalaya Mountains at the bottom of Mount Kanchenjunga.
There is only a few houses. In one there is a Judge is living with his granddaughter and a cook. The granddaughter is an orphan and the cook takes care of her.
The neighbors aren’t from England. Jerubhai plays with his guns and likes to have tea with English biscuits.
The Judge’s son Biju is working, (illegally), in New York City in an number of restaurant. The Judge want to live a peaceful life but his mind won’t let him because he is worried about Biju.
Sai is his granddaughter and has been looking the many ways of romance and the incarnations of them. She is only 16 and lives in a world that isn’t real.
She falls in love with Gyan, (her Nepali’s tutor and the cook’s son). Her life has become a mess!
The poor young men aren’t happy with the Colonial rule and the first target is Jerubhai.
You’ll have to read the book to find out what happens next....
What I Thought:
Kiran Desai is able to between first and third worlds that show the pain of exile and a wish for a better life. She is very insightful into the problems of the characters.
This means that one person’s wealth is another’s poverty. Desia has more wisdom than most people of her age.
It is funny and moving family story that is a sweetest and a delightful novel. If you haven’t read it go buy it, please.
Thanks for reading my review.
©LL2006