We offered Kiran Desai's THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS last month in paperback and we're pleased to say that the author has now won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Man Booker

Here's a little something about the book:

If you’ve enjoyed novels by Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, and Rohinton Mistry, then you’re going to love Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. Set in the isolated foothills on the border of India and Nepal, this highly acclaimed, politically trenchant novel tells the story of a small family’s desires and failed dreams, and their rude encounter with 21st-century geopolitics.

“Desai is a terrific writer”—Salman Rushdie

High in the mist-shrouded Himalayan alps, an embittered old judge lives in a crumbling manor with his spunky teenage granddaughter, Sai, and long-time cook. In the face of British discrimination, which “crushed him into a shadow,” the judge long ago retreated from public life. Sai, on the other hand, reads Trollope and embraces English culture, while the cook pines for his son, Biju, who’s struggling as an illegal kitchen worker in Manhattan. Though isolated, they are forced to confront unpleasant global realities when a band of insurgents bursts into their home. Rich and illuminating in its scope, The Inheritance of Loss is a brilliantly realized novel of exile and displacement.