Product Details
ISBN: 9780141027289
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2007-06-07
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Pages: 336
Pagination: 336 pages
Dimensions (mm): 198x129x20mm
Weight: 224g
The Inheritance Of Loss
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 ...