Por su inusual talento para entrelazar las emociones m?s sutiles con momentos de gran tensi?n dram?tica y punzante comicidad, Kiran Desai ha concitado en esta ?ltima novela la aclamaci?n un?nime de cr?tica y p?blico. Adem?s de lograr un notable ?xito de ventas en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, El legado de la p?rdida ha merecido el Premio Man Booker 2006, convirtiendo a Desai en la ganadora m?s joven de la historia de este prestigioso galard?n literario, el m?s importante de los que se conceden en el Reino Unido....
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 ...
