- Man Booker Prize Winner, Judges, Retirement, Teenage girls
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep.
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Prestige, earnest, contemporary and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Kiran Desai
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Pengiun Books, Motilal UK Books of India, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- English, French, und, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780141925738
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About Kiran Desai · 1971
She won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
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