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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. The novel is a multi-perspective story set in the Himalayas and New York that explores themes of globalization, migration, and cultural identity through the lives of a retired judge, his orphaned granddaughter Sai, and the cook's son Biju, who is living illegally in the US. It is also set against the backdrop of a violent Gurkha self-determination movement in India.
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