Book description
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling
house home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge
dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who
has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes
untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's
beloved dog.
Around the house swirls mountain mist but also the forces of
revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and
the future offers both hope and betrayal
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971, and was educated in India, in
England, and the United States. She is the author of the critically
acclaimed
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
and
The Inheritance of Loss
, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006.
