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The Inheritance of Loss
First US edition
AuthorKiran Desai
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Set inKalimpong and the United States, 1986
Publisher
  • Atlantic Monthly Press (US)
  • Hamish Hamilton (UK)
Publication date
31 August 2006
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages336 (hardback edition)
ISBN0-241-14348-9 (hardback)
OCLC65764578
Dewey Decimal
823.92
LC ClassPS3554.E82 I54
Preceded byHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard 

The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007,[1] and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.

It was written over a period of seven years after her first book, the critically acclaimed Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.[2][3] Among its main themes are migration, living between two worlds, and between past and present.

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