The Resource The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
Resource Information
The item The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- Summary
- An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide
- Isbn
- 9780802142818
- Label
- The inheritance of loss
- Title
- The inheritance of loss
- Statement of responsibility
- Kiran Desai
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Tutors and tutoring
- Asia -- Kānchenjunga
- trueHimalaya Mountains region
- Grandfathers
- Older men -- Fiction
- Geschichte 1985
- Domestic fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations
- Psychological fiction
- Judges -- Retirement
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
- trueNationalism
- trueModernization (Social sciences)
- truePolitical fiction
- trueEast Indians in the United States
- trueClass conflict
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- trueTeenage romance
- trueInsurgency
- trueGrandfather and granddaughter
- Fremdheit
- Teenage girls
- trueIndia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Older men
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- trueHope
- Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
- Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction
- trueSocial change
- trueJudges -- Retirement
- Familie
- Belletristische Darstellung
- trueInterethnic relations
- Orphans
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Grandparent and child
- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Kalimpang
- Einwanderer
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Domestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another
- Summary
- In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai
- Award
-
- Booker Prize, 2006.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2006.
- ALA Notable Book, 2007.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2006
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 138578
- Cataloging source
- PSC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ4.D7439
- LC item number
- In 2006a
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm71259148
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802142818
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)71259148
- Label
- The inheritance of loss, Kiran Desai
- Note
- Includes a reading group guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm71259148
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 357 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802142818
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)71259148
Subject
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- Asia -- Kānchenjunga
- Belletristische Darstellung
- trueClass conflict
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueEast Indians in the United States
- Einwanderer
- Ethnic relations
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Familie
- Fiction
- Fremdheit
- Geschichte 1985
- trueGrandfather and granddaughter
- Grandfathers
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Grandparent and child
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- trueHimalaya Mountains region
- trueHope
- trueIndia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueInsurgency
- trueInterethnic relations
- Judges -- Retirement
- trueJudges -- Retirement
- Judges -- Retirement -- Fiction
- Kalimpang
- Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India) -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueModernization (Social sciences)
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueNationalism
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Older men
- Older men -- Fiction
- Orphans
- Orphans -- Fiction
- truePolitical fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueSocial change
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- trueTeenage romance
- Tutors and tutoring
- Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
Genre
- Belletristische Darstellung
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- truePolitical fiction
- truePsychological fiction
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2007
- trueMan Booker Prize
- trueNational Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2006
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