In this illuminating and luminous novel, Kiran Desai assumes the literary baton from her mother, novelist Anita Desai. Kiran won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Set in the late 20th century at the foothills of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, and in New York, this evocative novel intersperses, in measured bursts of humour and compassion, what happens to an orphan girl, Sai, as she comes of age. The 16-year-old Sai is sent from her convent school to live with her anglophile grandfather, who has shut himself off from all human contact, giving all his love to his dog, Mutt.
