Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel.

High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.

The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.

Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world.

'A Magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and political acuteness' Hermione Lee, chair of the Man Booker Prize judges

'Poised, elegant and assured . . . breaks out into extraordinary beauty' The Times

'Desai's bold, original voice, and her ability to deal in a grand narratives with a deft comic touch that affectionately recalls some of the masters of Indian fiction, makes hers a novel to reread and remembered' Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141925738
• Artikelnr.: 39188462

Autorenporträt

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York. She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

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Praise for The Inheritance of Loss:

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award

"Kiran Desai's extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence . . . Desai's novel seems lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender . . . Desai's prose has uncanny flexibility and poise . . . Marvel at Desai's artistic power."-Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review (front page review)

"It's a clash of civilizations, even empires . . . The idea of an old empire, the British one collides against the nouveaux riche American one. The story ricochets between the two worlds, held together by Desai's sharp eyes and even sharper tongue . . . [A] substantial meal, taking on heavier issues of land and belonging, home and exile, poverty and privilege, and love and the longing for it."-Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle (front page review)

"Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory."-New Yorker

"If book reviews just cut to the chase, this one would simply read: This is a terrific novel! Read it! Desai characters are so alive, the places so vivid, that we are always inside their lives. Her insights into human nature, rare for so young a write, juggle timeless wisdom and Twenty-first century self-doubt."-Ann Harleman, Boston Globe

"Editor's Choice . . . Kiran Desai writes beautifully about powerless people as they tangle with the modern world and in so doing she casts her own powerful spell."-Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune

"An endearing view of globalisation . . . The Inheritance of Loss is a book about tradition and modernity, the past and the future-and about the surprising ways both amusing and sorrowful, in which they all connect . . . A wide variety of readers should enjoy."-Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

"Impressive . . . A big novel that stretches from India to New York; an ambitious novel that reaches into the lives of the middle class and the very poor; an exuberantly written novel that mixes colloquial and more literary styles; and yet it communicates nothing so much as how impossible it is to live a big, ambitious, exuberant life . . . Desai's prose becomes marvelously flexible . . . Always pulsing with energy."-The Guardian

"A magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness."-Hermione Lee, chair of the 2006 Man Booker Prize

"A sprawling and delicate book, like an ancient landscape glittering in the rain . . . Desai has a touch for alternating humor and impending tragedy that one associates with the greatest writers, and her prose is uncannily beautiful, a perfect balance of lyricism and plain speech."-O, The Oprah Magazine

"An astute observer of human nature and a delectably sensuous satirist . . . Perceptive and bewitching . . . Desai is superbly insightful in her rendering of compelling characters, and in her wisdom regarding the perverse dynamics of society . . . Incisively and imaginatively dramatizes the wonders and tragedies of Himalayan life and, by extension, the fragility of peace and elusiveness of justice, albeit with her own powerful blend of tenderness and wit."-Booklist (starred review)

"Stunning . . . In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a 'better life' when one person's wealth means another's poverty."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[An] exceptionally talented writer . . . She doesn't falter . . . penning a book that is wise, insightful and full of wonderfully compelling and conflicted characters . . . The Inheritance of Loss distinguishes her as a writer of note . . . A deft and often witty commentary on cultural issues . . . Abundant with illuminating detail and potent characters . . . With its razor insights and emotional scope The Inheritance of Loss amplifies a developing and formidable voice."-Jenifer Berman, Los Angeles Times

"Desai is wildly in love with the light and landscape and the characters who inhabit it. Summer comes alive with its sights, sounds and smells, and the rainy season pours down with more force than in any other novel . . . [Desai has] a love of languages that few American writers her age seem able to rival . . . One of the most impressive novels in English of the past year."-Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

"Desai is a gorgeous writer, capable of pulling us along on a raft of sensuous images that are often beautiful not because what they describe are inherently so, but because she has shown their naked truth. It is her language that draws us in and pins us there. Elegant and brave."-Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books