Book review : The Inheritance of Loss


The story starts with the story of Sai who just lost her parents and has come to stay with her grandfather in kalimpong. The story jumps back and forth in time, from character to character( so many characters simultaneously). The transition is very swift and it does bother in the beginning but you get used to it.
This book revolves around 2 main issues. Indians migrating for better life opportunities to Europe and USA and the movement of Gorkhaland in Kalimpong.
The main crux of the story is when you feel out the place what you do? When you are wronged by the world, humiliated, left out, looked down by the world. Then you do what? You work hard and you rise. You rise and exert your new found power on weak, the first person you find and think that you own them. You put out all your disgust and frustration on that person because the world was unfair to you.
The description of the illegal immigrants living like rats, all stuffed in one small filthy room away from home away from family is heart breaking.
This book covers one of the most brutal movement of 1986 when the insurgency by Gorkhas took a very violent turn.
The Gorkhaland movement chaos, strikes and riots and how it affected the normal people, the war like situation described by Kiran desai gives you goosebumps.
There are Smartly woven 2 contradicting stories of Jemubhai and Biju who left India for better life and what they got and what they turned out i loved the contradiction.
This book is depressing and thought provoking at the same time!

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