Volume III Issue II April-June 2023

Name of Author : J.Mercy Jenifer

Title of the paper : Kiran Desais Inheritance of Loss: Study on Displacement

Abstract: Kiran desai most famous novel The inheritance of loss published in 2006. It is her second notable work. This book has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and it has won the 2006 Man Booker Prize as well as the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Desai wrote this book in the seven years, following her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard1998. This novel The inheritance of loss story set in the place of Kalimpong, which is located at the foot of mount Kanchenjunga in the North Eastern part of post -Independence India. This novel points out some of the issues of globalization, social and economic inequality, alienation, racial, immigration, nationalism, cultural discrimination. ence. The basic aim of this paper attempt to analyses the reason for displacement and why the characters are suffered after the displacement. This novel is a best example of diasporic novel in the twenty first century.

Keywords : Immigration, Diasporic, Multiculturalism, Alienation.

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Page No. : 30-33