TY - BOOK AU - Desai,Kiran TI - The inheritance of loss SN - 9780143101222 AV - PS3554.E82 I54 2006 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books KW - Ethnic relations KW - fast KW - Grandfathers KW - Grandparent and child KW - Judges KW - Retirement KW - Older men KW - Orphans KW - Teenage girls KW - Tutors and tutoring KW - Fiction KW - Kānchenjunga (Nepal and India) KW - Asia KW - Kānchenjunga KW - Domestic fiction KW - Psychological fiction N2 - An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another ER -