The Inheritance of Loss
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Starred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be savvy readers of V.S. Naipaul but who are, perhaps, less aware of how fragile their own social standing is?at least until a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides threatening their very lives, the revolution also stymies the fledgling romance between 16-year-old Sai and her Nepalese tutor, Gyan. The cook's son, Biju, meanwhile, lives miserably as an illegal alien in New York. All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a better life, when one person's wealth means another's poverty.
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From The New Yorker
Desai's second novel is set in the nineteen-eighties in the northeast corner of India, where the borders of several Himalayan states—Bhutan and Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet—meet. At the head of the novel's teeming cast is Jemubhai Patel, a Cambridge-educated judge who has retired from serving a country he finds "too messy for justice." He lives in an isolated house with his cook, his orphaned seventeen-year-old granddaughter, and a red setter, whose company Jemubhai prefers to that of human beings. The tranquillity of his existence is contrasted with the life of the cook's son, working in grimy Manhattan restaurants, and with his granddaughter's affair with a Nepali tutor involved in an insurgency that irrevocably alters Jemubhai's life. Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory.
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
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I am glad I picked this book to be amongst those to read this month. I enjoyed it from the start to finish. An appealing setting, fast pace and fascinating characters made me to read it the second time.It brought to mind memories of scenes in The Usurper and Others, Good Earth,Bookseller of Kabul, which are culturally distinct books that I enjoyed. I especially liked the story's insightfulness and broad scope.
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"The Inheritance of Loss" is the story of Sai, her grand-father and his cook, her first love, the cook's son and all the neighbours. Sai's parents die in an accident and she has no other choice than to live at her grand father's whom she does not know. He never shows her any sign of affection, but at least he pays for her private tuition. As expected she falls in love with her science teacher who is barely four years older. However History might put them apart as he begins to associate with people (violently) demonstrating for the birth of Gorkhaland (area of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India). Despite all the events (either joyful, sad or scary) and instability Himalayan mountains stay unperturbed and all the characters consider them at some points to hide, dream, find hope, remember what beauty and peace mean. At the same time the author shares the story of Biju, the cook's son, who is an illegal immigrant in the US. There he (re)discovers what it means to be poor, unprotected, and alone. As months pass by he even wonders if it would really be worse to fly back home...
Sai and Biju's stories are definitely not happy, but their experiences are well described and the readers never feel the author is exaggerating or lapsing into voyeurism. The judge's profile (Sai's grand father) is totally frightening, but is interesting to understand. I did not know the political context well and I suggest any reader who is like me to check information on internet or books to make sure lack of knowledge does not spoil the reading pleasure.
Great book!
Sai and Biju's stories are definitely not happy, but their experiences are well described and the readers never feel the author is exaggerating or lapsing into voyeurism. The judge's profile (Sai's grand father) is totally frightening, but is interesting to understand. I did not know the political context well and I suggest any reader who is like me to check information on internet or books to make sure lack of knowledge does not spoil the reading pleasure.
Great book!
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