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Rent The Inheritance of Loss
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Narrator: Meera Simhan
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $39.95
Discs: 10
Synopsis
Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast gulf between economic classes in her second novel. In the 1980s, a Nepalese uprising threatens a reclusive, Cambridge-educated Indian judge living in the Himalayan foothills; his orphaned teenage granddaughter (who loves one of the Nepalese insurgents); and their miserable, put-upon cook, whose only reason for living, his son, suffers both loneliness and privation as an illegal immigrant in New York.