" Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself."
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDEE, 2006
This is the second novel of Kiran Desai, the daughter of another famous writer, Anita Desai. Issues of immigration, identity, colonialism are discussed in such fervor, often comical, sometimes tragic. It is about a group of people in a remote village in the northeastern part of Himalayas, at the bottom of Mt. Kanchenjunga, near the border of India and Nepal, who found caught amid the broiling conflict between the Ghorka National Liberation Front (GNLF), a Nepalese separatist group, and India.
This wonderful novel won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize.