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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.
作者简介
基兰·德赛，1971年出生于印度，15岁时定居英国，目前是美国哥伦比亚大学写作班的一名学生。德赛的母亲阿妮塔·德赛也是非常知名的作家，她自1980年起就曾三次进入布克奖的总决选名单，可惜从未折桂。阿妮塔曾经劝说女儿不要进入这个行列，理由是写作太难。而女儿最终以自己的成就给予母亲最大的安慰和回报。基兰·德赛的处女作《番石榴园的喧哗》曾受到各方的一致赞誉。2006年她凭借第二部长篇小说《失落》（The Inheritance of Loss，又译为《失落之遗产》）获得布克奖，成为有史以来赢得该奖项的最年轻的女作家。
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2006年，年仅35的英籍印度女作家基兰•德赛（Kiran Desai）凭自己的第二部小说《失落》（The Inheritace of Loss，又译为《失落之遗产》）获得布克奖，成为有史以来赢得该奖项的最年轻的女作家。我看这本书的中文版在先，英文版在后——当时在加拿大蒙特利尔，这座著名的移民...
评分【读品】罗豫/文 2006年，印度女作家基兰·德赛以一本涉及全球化和经济不平等问题的小说——《失落》折桂布克奖。5万镑奖金到达德赛手中时，不知她是否会联想到，这笔钱中有多少正是当年从印度乘船到达英国的财富在世界资本市场上的徒子徒孙。印度人拿布克奖远不是头一遭，对...
评分to tell the truth. I didn't finish it, though I made my attempts. Maybe I am prejudiced. Never found any contemporary writer from India or Pakistan really interesting. (anyone who want to beat me for this: u r welcome to recommend ur favorite) At least this...
评分作为一个正在苍老，并进化到顽固阶段的读者，我拒绝有意无意的心理暗示，所以咱们先不提她妈，不提博尔赫斯，不提布克奖，只让我们打开书直面文字。 基兰德赛写的失落，充满羞耻与愤怒，包装在自嘲和幽默的礼品纸下，散发着印度咖喱与农家奶酪混合的味道。它属于各族人的，各...
评分如同中国一样，20世纪的印度同样受到了三个强势国家（英国、苏联、美国）的影响，强势的文明从肉体和精神上一次次撼动着这片有着古老传统的土地，然而，每次的武力侵略或思想影响或经济掠夺都只是给了印度人一个发展的梦想，一次梦想破灭后的失落，一种需要遗忘的价值观。他们...
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