Inheritance of Loss The (R/J)

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 judge’s chatty cook watches over the girl but his thoughts are mos...See More