After undergoing, a painful seven years of apprenticeship, living in Brookyln, she often visited her mother Anita Desai in New York or travelled with her. Her debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is no less ingenious in its treatment of identity and subjectivity. It is based on myth-making and mythical systems. Kiran Desai's literary creations are endowed with multicultural themes in which hopes and aspirations of both men and women in a globalised society are presented to comprehend the contemporary reality. Kiran’s novels reveal the subtleties and nuances of fictional art that contribute to her growth and development as a major influence on the literature of Indian Diaspora. Her command of English language
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The regional settings in the novel are much relevant if judged from cultural perspective. This novel focuses not on an individual’s story but on how several people make sense of them, view the world around them and deal with the difficulties they face. The novel follows the journey of an embittered old judge Sai, his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, a cook, the cook’s son Biju. Kiran Desai introduces the characters as they live their life in the background of continuing fights. Throughout the novel there are two different story strands – one following the lives of people in Kalimpong, and one following the immigrant life of Biju in USA. The novel showcases the internal conflicts among different groups and it revolves around the past and present life of the characters. With all these plots the author binds the impact of colonialism, diverse cultural impacts and the identity conflict. Another concept is the political and geographical conflict caused by certain group of people. This is the backdrop of all …show more content…
Her third aim is to write about, “what happens when you take people from poor country and place them in a wealthy one. How does the imbalance between the two world’s change a person’s thinking and feeling? How do these changes manifest themselves in a personal sphere, a political sphere, over time?” As she says, “These are old themes that continue to be relevant in today’s world, the past informing the present, the present revealing the past.” This thesis is an attempt to explore the Class differences and Pluralism in The Inheritance of Loss. The lives of characters are trapped in India’s class system and their exposure to different culture. The novel speaks of those who are going back and forth between cultures and homeland, through characters such as the cook’s son Biju to America and then back to
The regional settings in the novel are much relevant if judged from cultural perspective. This novel focuses not on an individual’s story but on how several people make sense of them, view the world around them and deal with the difficulties they face. The novel follows the journey of an embittered old judge Sai, his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter, a cook, the cook’s son Biju. Kiran Desai introduces the characters as they live their life in the background of continuing fights. Throughout the novel there are two different story strands – one following the lives of people in Kalimpong, and one following the immigrant life of Biju in USA. The novel showcases the internal conflicts among different groups and it revolves around the past and present life of the characters. With all these plots the author binds the impact of colonialism, diverse cultural impacts and the identity conflict. Another concept is the political and geographical conflict caused by certain group of people. This is the backdrop of all …show more content…
Her third aim is to write about, “what happens when you take people from poor country and place them in a wealthy one. How does the imbalance between the two world’s change a person’s thinking and feeling? How do these changes manifest themselves in a personal sphere, a political sphere, over time?” As she says, “These are old themes that continue to be relevant in today’s world, the past informing the present, the present revealing the past.” This thesis is an attempt to explore the Class differences and Pluralism in The Inheritance of Loss. The lives of characters are trapped in India’s class system and their exposure to different culture. The novel speaks of those who are going back and forth between cultures and homeland, through characters such as the cook’s son Biju to America and then back to