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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Kiran Desai |
| Narrator: |
Meera Simhan |
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Education · Family & Relationships · |
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New Yorker: "Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Hardcover, 324
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr (January 09, 2006)
Measurements: 9"(h) x 6"(w) x 0.75"(d), 1.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9780871139290 |
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Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast gulf between economic classes in her second novel. In the 1980s, a Nepalese uprising threatens a reclusive, Cambridge-educated Indian judge living in the Himalayan foothills; his orphaned teenage granddaughter (who loves one of the Nepalese insurgents); and their miserable, put-upon cook, whose only reason for living, his son, suffers both loneliness and privation as an illegal immigrant in New York. |
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