# The Inheritance of Loss

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- Book: [The Inheritance of Loss](https://www.bookquiver.com/kiran-desai/the-inheritance-of-loss) ([The Inheritance of Loss.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kiran-desai/the-inheritance-of-loss.md))
- Authors: [Kiran Desai](https://www.bookquiver.com/kiran-desai)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-728-9
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2008-08-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal ...