Author: Lost inheritancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Kiran DesaiPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555845916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s chatty cook watches over the girl, but his thoughts are mostly with his son, Biju, hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant job to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai’s new-sprung romance with her tutor, the household descends into chaos. The cook witnesses India’s hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge revisits his past and his role in Sai and Biju’s intertwining lives. In a grasping world of colliding interests and conflicting desires, every moment holds out the possibility for hope or betrayal. Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters and “uncannily beautiful” prose (O: The Oprah Magazine). “A book about tradition and modernity, the past and the future—and about the surprising ways both amusing and sorrowful, in which they all connect.” —The Independent
The Lost Inheritance
Author: Lost inheritanceThe Lost Heir
Author: Chris GourleyPublisher: Inheritance Ring Series
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Standing atop a promontory, she sees them coming... interlopers in the desert, clumsy outsiders whose caravan blazes a trail of dust. Alisutton d'ere Lihter, who her brothers once called "Button", was abandoned in this wasteland, years ago. Is it those who betrayed her, returning? And if so... why? The answer will bring a girl the world thought dead back across the desert, home to a place she barely remembers. She is The Lost Heir, last of her line... but the secret she carries with her won't put her on the throne. Instead, it prompts a race across the land, a daring rescue, and brings to light yet more mysteries. Who is hunting her along the way? Can she trust what's left of her family or the strangers who have taken her into their fold... or only herself? With her bow and her spear, her heart and her wits, and an indomitable will to survive, Button will find the answers. But she will also learn, like the wind in the desert, what we learn can change us. For good or ill, she will never be the same.
Eustace; or, The lost inheritance
Author: Edward MonroLost Inheritance
Author: Lin SteppPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998506333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Set amid the charm of downtown Gatlinburg in the Smoky Mountains, Lin Stepp's LOST INHERITANCE explores how shattering loss can lead to happiness and gain.
The Lost Inheritance
Author: InheritanceInheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies
Author: Leo HollisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786079968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
‘Brilliant’ Financial Times ‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities’ Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London June 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed. Within hours they are married. Yet three weeks later, the bride flees to London and swears that she had never agreed to the wedding. So begins one of the most intriguing stories of madness, tragic passion and the curse of inheritance. Inheritance charts the forgotten life of Mary Davies and the fate of the land that she inherited as a baby – land that would become the squares, wide streets and elegant homes of Mayfair, Belgravia, Kensington and Pimlico. From child brides and mad heiresses to religious controversy and shady dealing, the drama culminated in a court case that determined not just the state of Mary’s legacy but the future of London itself.
Inheritance Lost
Author: Julian RuckPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783011688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Disfigured and forgotten by the Falkland's War, Kristian Treharne embarks upon the more challenging campaign of renewing an old love affair - a mission fraught with more unexploded bombs and surprises than even his veteran instincts are able to anticipate.Meanwhile his sister, Charlotte Treharne, now an aspiring young lawyer, discovers a more sinister and violent secret lurking in the wailing winds that tear through the tragic memories of her mother's beloved home Ragged Cliffs.The past and present clash with each other in a maelstrom of punishment and revenge, while the uncompromising cliffs of the Gower Peninsula look on and choose their own destiny.
Inheritance of Loss
Author: Yukiko KogaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641213X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In Inheritance of Loss, anthropologist Yukiko Koga tackles complex questions of how two nations previously at war come to terms with their troubled past. Her site is Northeast China, where Japan s imperial ambitions were pursued to devastating and murderous ends in the twentieth century. There the landscape, which is still peppered with missiles and unexploded chemical weapons from the war, is the backdrop for refurbished imperial architecture and revived Japanese businesses. But the national wounds of China and Japan s history problem cannot be stitched together solely through international trade. The author shows why mutual recognition of wartime atrocities is the only thing that can allay the persistent and sporadically explosive tensions between two of the most powerful countries in the Eastern hemisphere. A milestone in memory studies that incorporates sorely needed attention to materiality and political economy, Inheritance of Loss shows just how crucial imperial legacies will continue to be despite China s and Japan s attempts to leave the past behind in pursuit of a more prosperous future."
Lost Inheritance
Author: Obert HollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780645370300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Autobiography covering the lives of the Holl Family beginning with William Holl (The Elder), William Holl (The Younger), Harry Patrick Holl, Benjamin Holl(and his 3 siblings) and Obert Holl (and his siblings).