THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS is set in the backdrop of the peaks of the Himalayas to the
immigrant quarters of New York.It is a gripping story of
people thrown against winds of misery,personal and political.In a cracking isolated house at the foot of Mt.Kachenjunga lives a
judge who wants to retire in peace from a world he has found indifferent to justice,.his only companions being his dog Mutt and the
cook.The cook who watches over him is a witness to an hierarchy being overturned due to the rising insurgency in Nepal.His thoughts are ached by his son Biju who is hopscotching in New York for a green card. Sai,the judge’s orphaned granddaughter arrival brings in conflicts of emotions upsetting their monotony.Sai’s relation with a Nepali tutor Gyan ,turns bitter due to their colliding interests.The
novel talks about the contradictions of east and west,poverty and wealth,immigrant and the resident.It is a remarkable novel about little people swept up in larger events of life which inevitably crushes them.
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