Literary talent continues to bloom (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Literary talent continues to bloom

1:36pm Monday 14th August 2006 in

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THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. Publisher: Hamish Hamilton; Author: Kiran Desai; Price: £12.99.

From the acclaimed author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard comes a new novel which confirms the blossoming of an extraordinary literary talent.

Kiran Desai will be visiting the UK at publication and will be available for interview.

The Inheritance of Loss is a sweeping story set in the Indian Himalayas at the time of the Nepalese insurgency, which combines a bittersweet love story with sharp political satire.

Already massively praised on its US and Indian publications, here is a selection of some of the critics' and readers' responses:

• "The Inheritance of Loss is a revelation in the possibilities of the novel. It is vast in scope, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the immigrant quarters of New York; the gripping stories of people buffeted by the winds of history, personal and political.

Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.

• "The Inheritance of Loss, so moving, funny, unflinching, is the best novel I've yet read about the contemporary immigrant life and the ongoing parallel world left behind'.

Francisco Goldman, author of The Divine Husband.

A nation's tragedies, great and small, are revealed through the hopes and the dreams, the innocence and the arrogance, the love betrayed, and the all too human failings of a superbly realised cast of characters.

Kiran Desai writes of post-colonial India, of its poor as well as its privileged, with a cold eye and a warm heart.

The Inheritance of Loss is an exquisite novel; mature, significant and a first-rate read.' Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of An Almost Perfect Moment.