The Inheritance of Loss (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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DESAI, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010. Octavo. Full red leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt stamping to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 358 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. Kiran Desai (b. 1971) was born in New Delhi, the daughter of Anita Desai, one of the most distinguished Indian novelists of the twentieth century. She grew up between India, England, and the United States — a biography that maps directly onto the concerns of her fiction — and published her debut novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard , to widespread acclaim in 1998. The Inheritance of Loss , her second novel, took seven years to write, and when it was published in 2006 it won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. At thirty-five, Desai became the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. The novel is set in 1986 in Kalimpong, a hill town in northeastern India near the borders with Sikkim and Nepal, beneath the vast presence of Mount Kanchenjunga. At its centre is the retired judge Jemubhai Patel — a man who left India for England in the 1940s to study law, was systematically humiliated by the society he sought to enter, and returned home with a lastin

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