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A poem by Jorge Luis Borges, "Boast of Quietness," serves as a fitting epigraph to Karin Desai's acclaimed novel, "The Inheritance of Loss" (2006). Borges's poem speaks of loss, of universal human feelings, and of the difficulties in achieving self-contentment and containment. The poem is told in the first person by a narrator who describes himself as "someone and anyone". It speaks of the "ambitious" whose "day is greedy as a lariat in the air." Borges's narrator observes that "My humanity is the feeling we are all voices of the same poverty." The poem describes the speaker's homeland as "the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, and old sword, the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls". And at the conclusion of the poem, the narrator tries to return home. He "walks slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive."

The themes of loss, ambition, wandering,return, and family pervade Desai's novel. Her story is set in northeast India in 1986 -1987 at the foot of the Himalayas against the backdrop of an uprising of Nepalese and other non-Indians against the Indian government. At the same time, the scene shifts repeatedly to the contemporaneous United States and to flashbacks to other places and times. The many characters in the novel share common parallels of experience which are sometimes too neatly drawn.

Thus the book depicts the young days of a retired elderly Indian judge who studied in England during India's colonial period. Upon the death of his daughter and her husband, he becomes responsible for his granddaughter Sai, whose parents left her in a convent before meeting their deaths in the Soviet Union. At 16, Sai becomes attracted to her tutor, Gyan, age 20 also from a poor background whose parents have high ambitions for him. Gyan is involved in the uprising against the Indians which ultimately destroys their relationship. The Judge has an elderly servant, a cook, who takes a fatherly interest in Sai. The cook too has ambitions for his son Biju. He sends Biju to the United States where he works for years as an illegal in a series of menial jobs in a futile attempt to gain success and happiness. He ultimately abandons this effort and returns to what remains his home, with all its violence, poverty and turmoil.

The novel includes political themes and it comes close at times to social polemic. England's colonial rule of India, the difficulties and corruption that plagued India's path to self-governance, poor relationships with ethnic groups, endemic poverty, and a crassly materialistic United States all receive their due of criticism and more in this story. But on the whole, I found that Desai emphasized the human heart and human fallibility as the chief source of sorrow and grief. Desai's story is full of the consequences of needless and pervasive hate, misunderstanding, dissatisfaction and discontent, and lust for material success in a world that is not one's own. I found the focus of the book predominantly internal and the pervading tone that of compassion.

The story is told in a lyrical descriptive voice. Desai explores the pain wrought by change, with a suggestion of stasis as a way around it. The important themes raised in the book stay mostly on the surface, and the book has an impressionistic, evanescent tone. It has the feel of a sad reverie.

Robin Friedman


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The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2015802142818 Books Reviews

I couldn't get past the first few chapters. We got this as a book club book and ended up cancelling that month. Out of the 5 of us, only one made it to the 50% mark
In this book there are a several beautifully written life truths about the fragility of life and fragility of human spirit when it comes to what we allow to consume us. This was not a pAge turner for me and, while I liked the characters they felt a little underdeveloped and the plot was slow moving. Seemed like if I read it with someone who was aware of the author's deeper meanings it may have lent more depth to my experience.
a very enjoyable read. The author has a marvellous vocabulary, which when combined with a wonderful understanding of human behavior keeps the reader in thrall with the colorful narrative.
As I came to the last few pages of this awesome novel, I said to myself, If they do not find the dog, I am going to burn this book.

This book is not one you will skim through. The story and the characters are complex as is the land and times they live in. So much of the book made me smile and laugh out loud. But there were numerous times I wanted to shout at the people and the situations. I have spent time in India and know its contradictions. I know how frustrating it is for a westerner to deal with its customs. But there is so much truth in this book that it was worth reading and rereading.

I recommend it to those readers willing to make an effort, but not to anyone who reads solely for pleasure and entertainment. I think you will be rewarded.
I listened to the book, did not read it. The reader was just right. I listened to each CD a few times to get the full flavor of it, and because there’s a lot going on. Beautifully written, well deserved the Booker prize. It did what novels I really admire do, showed characters bent by the worlds they inhabit, showed a sweep of history, a large social landscape. It’s grim, and frightening, but the grimness is alleviated by the warmth, wit, humor, geniality. The book begs for a sequel—I’m totally committed to these characters. Author, author sequel, please!

I don't get why the ranking isn't a lot higher than it is.
The UN Women/USNC Gulf Coast Book Club met on Monday, June 13,2016 to discuss The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Desai won the Man Booker Prize in 2006, among many other awards. Her mother is Anita Desai, also an award-winning writer, who we read last year with great interest and pleasure. Kiran writes in an exquisite style laced with poetic metaphors, fraught with tensions among a kalediscope of characters who live near the Darjeeling Hills of northern India during the 1980s when a revolution exploded for the independence of Ghorkhaland for Nepalis in India. Far-reaching effects of colonialism mark the isolated grandfather judge, who learned self-loathing under the Raj, along with aunties of a certain age. The judge's grand-daughter, Sai, loses both scientist parents in Russia to a car accident, and finds a lonely refuge in his sprawling, decrepit home. The cook's son, Biju, finds only suffering in the dungeons of undocumented immigrants in America's cities, until he desperately returns to his father, losing everything along the way. Desai describes the myriad characters' lives as rather idyllic until history catches up with them and everyone feels the inheritance of their losses. In Desai's words
This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate. The space between life and death, in the end, too small to measure.
A poem by Jorge Luis Borges, "Boast of Quietness," serves as a fitting epigraph to Karin Desai's acclaimed novel, "The Inheritance of Loss" (2006). Borges's poem speaks of loss, of universal human feelings, and of the difficulties in achieving self-contentment and containment. The poem is told in the first person by a narrator who describes himself as "someone and anyone". It speaks of the "ambitious" whose "day is greedy as a lariat in the air." Borges's narrator observes that "My humanity is the feeling we are all voices of the same poverty." The poem describes the speaker's homeland as "the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, and old sword, the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls". And at the conclusion of the poem, the narrator tries to return home. He "walks slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive."

The themes of loss, ambition, wandering,return, and family pervade Desai's novel. Her story is set in northeast India in 1986 -1987 at the foot of the Himalayas against the backdrop of an uprising of Nepalese and other non-Indians against the Indian government. At the same time, the scene shifts repeatedly to the contemporaneous United States and to flashbacks to other places and times. The many characters in the novel share common parallels of experience which are sometimes too neatly drawn.

Thus the book depicts the young days of a retired elderly Indian judge who studied in England during India's colonial period. Upon the death of his daughter and her husband, he becomes responsible for his granddaughter Sai, whose parents left her in a convent before meeting their deaths in the Soviet Union. At 16, Sai becomes attracted to her tutor, Gyan, age 20 also from a poor background whose parents have high ambitions for him. Gyan is involved in the uprising against the Indians which ultimately destroys their relationship. The Judge has an elderly servant, a cook, who takes a fatherly interest in Sai. The cook too has ambitions for his son Biju. He sends Biju to the United States where he works for years as an illegal in a series of menial jobs in a futile attempt to gain success and happiness. He ultimately abandons this effort and returns to what remains his home, with all its violence, poverty and turmoil.

The novel includes political themes and it comes close at times to social polemic. England's colonial rule of India, the difficulties and corruption that plagued India's path to self-governance, poor relationships with ethnic groups, endemic poverty, and a crassly materialistic United States all receive their due of criticism and more in this story. But on the whole, I found that Desai emphasized the human heart and human fallibility as the chief source of sorrow and grief. Desai's story is full of the consequences of needless and pervasive hate, misunderstanding, dissatisfaction and discontent, and lust for material success in a world that is not one's own. I found the focus of the book predominantly internal and the pervading tone that of compassion.

The story is told in a lyrical descriptive voice. Desai explores the pain wrought by change, with a suggestion of stasis as a way around it. The important themes raised in the book stay mostly on the surface, and the book has an impressionistic, evanescent tone. It has the feel of a sad reverie.

Robin Friedman