Loss of Human Values in The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker prize (2006) for Kiran Desai. She seems to be much influenced by her mother, Anita Desai as she was privileged to state in her award acceptance speech:“I owe her such an enormous debt that I can’t express it in any ordinary way.” Both of them have more or less the same kinds of experiences-of immigration, of homelessness and of multiple identities. Kiran Desai studied in India, England and America. Struggling to get an American citizenship, she lived with the uncertainties of an immigrant in America on a student visa. The writer has acknowledged the autobiographical situations and motivations of characters in her novel-"The characters of my story are entirely fictional, but these journeys of ( her grandparents) as well as my own provided insight into what it means to travel between East and West and it is this I wanted to capture. The fact that I live this particular life is no accident. It was my inheritance". (Browse.com).