The Inheritance Of Loss
(Kiran Desai)
Kiran Desai?s second book ?The Inheritance of Loss? didn?t win the booker Prize alone. It succeeded in winning the hearts of readers across the globe. And deservingly so. For this is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people. A tale which makes you think as much as it makes you feel.Set in Kalimpong, a small Indian town at the foothills of the Himalayas, this book highlights globally relevant issues like multi-culturalism, terrorism, social-inequality, to name a few. The story is simple enough. A young orphan Sai goes to live with her grandfather, a retired judge who has just a cook and a few hunting rifles for company. Their idyllic existence is shattered when insurgency erupts in the region, putting brakes, amongst other things, on a budding romance between the grand daughter and her tutor. The racy narrative goes back and forth between Kalimpong and New York (where the cook?s son lives)Desai makes you care about the characters, all of whom have one thing in common ? the pain of humiliation. She makes you feel as if you are standing in the shoes of a job-hopping illegal immigrant in the States at times. At others, she makes you cringe at the callous treatment meted out to the underprivileged in India. Painstakingly plotted, meticulously constructed, this book has a lot of strengths, not least of which is the introduction of minor characters who waltz in and out every few pages, managing to make an impression on the reader, all the same. Kiran Desai has chosen her story and words well. And so will you, if you pick up a copy of ?The Inheritance of Loss?.
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