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For more novels by Kiran Desai, see: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
For other twentieth-century and contemporary novels by Indian authors, see: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; and The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
Nonfiction accounts of India's changing economy include: In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce; The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith; and Planet India by Mira Kamdar.
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The Question and Answer section for The Inheritance of Loss is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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The food at the Ghandi cafe is the same generic Indian food that is served all throughout the states. Harish-Harry knows his market saying Indians make good immigrants because they understood demand-supply. Malini, Harish's wife is also a tough...
The novel's climax occurs in Chapter 43, when the public burning of the Indo-Nepal Treaty devolves into violence between police and local residents.
