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Desai, Kiran : The Inheritance of Loss

Penguin Books, 2006

ISBN 0141027282

Signed by Author(s)The wraps are slightly shelf rubbed.internally clean, soundly bound.signed by Author.[J.K]. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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Desai, Kiran : The Inheritance Of Loss

Atlantic Monthly Press, New York City, NY, 2006

ISBN 0871139294

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 324 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. One of the finest novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British Edition and the 2010 Easton Press Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss". Her singular masterpiece. "Beautiful. Lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender" (Pankaj Mishra). "The best novel I've read about the immigrant life and the ongoing parallel world left behind. It's the best, sweetest, most delightful novel I've read in ages" (Francisco Goldman). "Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class in ways both moving and revelatory" (The New Yorker Magazine). The novel is dedicated to Anita Desai, a world-renowned and iconic writer ("To my mother with so much love"), who clearly inspired Kiran, the youngest of Desai's four children, to follow in her mother's footsteps. For better or for worse, Kiran Desai's own novel will be difficult to surpass, a very tough act to follow. An absolute "must-have" title for Kiran Desai collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Kiran Desai. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which her signature was obtained. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. This is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007 for "The Inheritance of Loss". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KIRAN DESAI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0871139294.

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