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Kiran Desai''s first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard,
was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries.
Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising
insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated
house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old
judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter
Sai arrives on his doorstep. The judge''s chatty cook watches over
her, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching
from one New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step
ahead of the INS, forced to consider his country''s place in the
world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai''s
new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their
lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront
their colliding interests. The nation fights itself. The cook
witnesses the hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge
must revisit his past, his own role in this grasping world of
conflicting desires--every moment holding out the possibility for
hope or betrayal. A novel of depth and emotion, Desai''s second,
long-awaited novel fulfills the grand promise established by her
first. Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 National
Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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