Inheritance of Loss The (R/J) & Clear Light Of Day (SET OF 2 BOOKS)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.While their parents went to parties at Delhi's Roshanara Club the children of the Das family brought themselves up reading Byron listening to the gramophone and watching over sad alcoholic Mira masi. Many years later the youngest Tara now a mother of two has returned from America to the scene of her unusual lonesome childhood. Here as always is her sister Bim doggedly single college-lecturer and caretaker of all. In her presence Tara sinks into the blissful torpor of home at once her dreamy old self but careful as ever around her older sister. For at the heart of this reunion are numerous tensions Tara feels the persistent guilt of having like the others abandoned Bim their autistic brother Baba is increasingly unquiet and Bim has not spoken to their other brother Raja for years and refuses to go to his daughter's wedding. Clear Light of Day is vintage Anita Desai a novel as wonderfully contemplative as a cup of afternoon tea.In a crumbling isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly for his thoughts are often on his son Biju who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai's brilliant novel published to huge acclaim is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world. About the Author Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971. Her last book was the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Educated in India England and the United States she continues to divide her time between places with mixed results.