Kiran is the name of the day.

The other Kiran, Kiran Chetry, in another thread attracted a lot of visitors and coincidentally, heard about this Kiran, Kiran Desai, for the first time today, hearing her interview on WNYC radio. She is the daughter of a famous Indian novelist Anita Desai. Her book The Inheritance of Loss, taking place in Kalimpong and New York City, is selling like hot cake.

Me no literate but just sharing the news with you all literates..........



The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's chatty cook watches over her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country's place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their colliding interests. The nation fights itself. The cook witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world of conflicting desires-every moment holding out the possibility for hope or betrayal. A novel of depth and emotion, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first.


Synopsis: Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. In her second novel, Desai takes us on a journey to the town of Kalimpong, a mountain hamlet high in the northeastern Himalayas, perched at the foot of misty Mount Kachendzonga, where an embittered old judge wants to retire in peace with his beloved pooch, Mutt, at his side. However these plans are interrupted when the judge's orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on the doorstep of his large, crumbling house when the nuns of St. Augustine's convent school feel they can do no more. The judge's chatty cook fondly embraces Sai, along with others from the town's colorful Anglo-Indian community, who tell her about the town's past, and her own, over tea and biscuits. A tender balance has held this verdant, beautiful region — nestled among Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan — together for some time, but a growing Nepalese insurgency is threatening to shatter the status quo. When Sai falls for her handsome Nepalese tutor, Gyan, the turmoil comes home to roost. A novel of such depth and emotion, hilarity and imagination, Desai's second, long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her first.