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The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai
Grove, 357 pages, $14 paper
This novel, moving between the mountains of the Himalayas, the austerity of a British boardinghouse and the orbit of illegal immigrants working in New York restaurants, is a bittersweet one. Kiran Desai writes beautifully about powerless people as they tangle with the modern world and in so doing she casts her own powerful spell.
