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" The inheritance of loss / "
Kiran Desai.
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BL
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Record Number
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978542
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Doc. No
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b732912
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Main Entry
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Desai, Kiran,1971-
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Title & Author
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The inheritance of loss /\ Kiran Desai.
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Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Atlantic Monthly Press,, ©2006.
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Page. NO
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324 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0739472976
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: 0802142818
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: 0871139294
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: 9780739472972
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: 9780802142818
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: 9780871139290
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0241143489 (UK hbk.)
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0241143640 (UK pbk.)
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Abstract
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In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.
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Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated Himalayan hill town.
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Domestic fiction.
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Ethnic relations, Fiction.
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Grandfathers, Fiction.
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Grandparent and child, Fiction.
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Judges-- Retirement, Fiction.
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Older men, Fiction.
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Orphans, Fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Teenage girls, Fiction.
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Tutors and tutoring, Fiction.
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Orphans, Fiction.
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Fictional Works.
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Domestic fiction.
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Ethnic relations.
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Grandfathers.
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Grandparent and child.
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Judges-- Retirement.
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Older men.
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Orphans.
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Psychological fiction.
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Teenage girls.
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Tutors and tutoring.
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Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India), Fiction.
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Asia, Kānchenjunga.
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Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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LC Classification
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PS3554.E82I54 2006
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