Buy this book on-line DESAI, KIRAN: : THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,2006. ISBN 9780241143483.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,7th imp. [Complete number line 7.] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to publisher's (PENGUIN) original bookplate pasted to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around multi-colour illustration,by Brian Cronin,illustrated dw/dj with red+brown lettering,an orange circular sticker with 'signed by the author,in white letters; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,7th imp,2-324pp [paginated] includes 53 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED bookplate to title page,a dedication,Jorge Luis Borges epigram/poem,a title separator page and a thanks/Salaams page at the rear of the book.Winner of the Booker Prize for 2006.
In the north-eastern Himalayas,at the foot of Mount Kachenjunga,in a crumbling isolated house,there lives a cantankerous old judge,who wants nothing more than to retire in peace.But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter,Sai,and the son of his chatty cook trying to make his way in the US and stay a step ahead of the immigration services,this is far from easy.
When a Nepalese insurgency threatens the blossoming romance between Sai and her handsome tutor,they,too,are forced to consider their colliding interests.And the judge must revisit his past,his own journey and his role in this grasping world of conflicting desires - every moment holding out the possibility of hope or betrayal.
A story of such depth and emotion, hilarity and imagination,rich,beautiful and infinitely wise,'The Inheritance of Loss' is a glorious second novel from the author of the universally praised 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.'
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