KIRAN DESAI

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Kiran Desai representa la voz más joven del actual «boom» de la narrativa angloindia. Nada menos que Salman Rushdie ha dicho de ella que «es la prueba más evidente de que el encuentro de la India con la literatura inglesa [...] continúa dando vida a nuevos hijos, dotados de abundantes talentos». El joven Sampath Chawla, nacido en el seno de u...

En un mas a:amp;iuml;llat i mig en ru:amp;iuml;nes, situat a la falda de la muntanya Kanchenjunga, a la zona fronterera de l:amp;#39;Him:amp;agrave;laia indi, hi viu un jutge amb la seva n:amp;eacute;ta adolescent i un cuiner. Ara que s:amp;#39;ha jubilat, l:amp;#39;:amp;uacute;nic desig del jutge :amp;eacute;s viure en pau lluny d:amp;#39;un m:...

In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt...

At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But, with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy.

Sampath Chawla is born into a family slightly off kilter, to a mother not quite like her neighbors,