Desai, Kiran <br/><br/>
The inheritance of loss 
Kiran Desai 
 - USA :  Penguin Books,   2006. 
 - 324 pages :  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant job to another. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143423904 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Grandparent and child<br/>Tutors and tutoring<br/>Orphans<br/>Teenage girls<br/>Ethnic relations<br/>Judges--Retirement<br/>English - Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.54  / DES