The Inheritance Of Loss
(Kiran Desai)
Kiran Desai?s Booker Prize (2006)winning creation is the tale of a judge living at the very foot of Mount Kanchenjunga.He is an embittered old man in the evening of his life. All he wants to witheraway in peace. And then comes his granddaughter to live with him. Thenthere is this little romance between the granddaughter and her good lookingNepalese teacher. The romance does what something of this kind often does --throws the lives out of gear. It is this chaos that the story manages to dealwith bravely and this is for which Desai has to be given due credit for. However,the novel is not as promising as a Booker winning work has to be. It is good,but, by no means, great. Beforethe towering Booker winning works of Rushdie (Midnight?s Children) andArundhati Roy (The God of Small Things), Kiran Desai?s rather appreciable worksfails to shine. Itwas not expected of Kiran Desai to redraw the literary map of Asialike Rushdie did, but the work does not have the innovative sheen befitting aBooker winner. Sorry to say that.
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