A review by eunicek82
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This was a really ambitious work that set out to show how big external forces (like colonialism, globalism, capitalism, etc) can affect the idea of a country — India in this case — and the lives of individuals. I really appreciated what she was doing with this. I also loved the back and forth in time within a person’s memory where a certain object or event would trigger and even influence a memory from the past. What did not work as well for me was her sentence-level writing. While some parts, especially the dialogue felt snappy, I would be stopped dead in my tracks by the most weirdly worded flowery sentences. I think the Booker loves a book about colonialism and so I can see why this took the prize.