LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.


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Agonies of the Immigrants in Kiran Desai’s
The Inheritance of Loss

B. S. Jadhav, M.A., PGCTE, M.Phil., Ph.D.
P. B. Nirmal, Ph.D. Candidate


Kiran Desai Novel

Pain and Suffering of Immigrants

This paper analyzes Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, about which Publishers Weekly comments thus, “It is a majestic novel illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding drive for ‘better life’ when one person’s wealth means another’s poverty” (cited from the inner flap of The Inheritance of Loss). This novel won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. It traces the pain, pathos, despair and agonies of the immigrants.

Kiran Desai touches also upon the minute issues concerned with immigration and the swings between the East and the West. She describes her novel as a book that “tries to capture what it means to live between East and West and what it means to be an immigrant” (Ghosh 13). The novel examines the lives of immigrants in a very insightful manner.

 


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B. S. Jadhav, M.A., PGCTE, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
DSM College, Parbhani 431 401
Maharashtra (India)
bs_jadhav@rediffmail.com
&
Dean, Faculty of Arts, S R T M University, Nanded 431 606
Maharashtra (India)

P. B. Nirmal, Ph. D. Candidate
Assistant Professor of English
Sant Tukaram Arts and Science College, Parbhani 431 401 Maharashtra (India)
panditbnirmal@rediffmail.com




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