The Inheritance of Loss

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An extraordinary novel lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judges chatty cook watches over the girl but his thoughts are mostly wi...See More