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In this book, 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

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Author

Kiran Desai

Publisher

Penguin Books; Penguin Group

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802165053

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (38,502 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14