The Inheritance of LossThe Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006. In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling househome to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain