The Inheritance of Loss

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 324, [2]. Dark brown paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket illustration by Brian Cronin (priced at £16.99 to front flap).

Second novel by the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998). Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007. In a crumbling cottage in the remote northeastern Himalayan foothills, an embittered old judge finds his peaceful retirement interrupted by the sudden arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. "[A] magnificent novel of humane breadth and wisdom, comic tenderness and powerful political acuteness." –Hermione Lee, chair of the Man Booker Prize judges