The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

Like mother like daughter. She writes beautifully. She has inherited the splendid gift of portraying landscapes in all its vividness from her mother, Anita Desai. Progenies are expected to excel their makers and so Kiran Desai is the youngest woman to receive The Man Booker Prize. So far so good.

About the book:- It's like watching a dry dreadful black&white art movie all alone in a huge cinema hall. In a beautiful n poetic language, the novel describes the stale yet serene life of a retired judge, his grand daughter, her Nepali tuition teacher cum lover and of the cook who live in the post-colonial north-east India. The reader gets a fair idea of the short-lived Gorkhaland revolution too. The story is snail-paced n reaches nowhere.

I liked the cover design.