The Inheritance
A Novel
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- ¥1,800
発行者による作品情報
“What do you get when you pair a wealthy Delhi business owner on the verge of retirement, his three troubled kids, and a remote island? A high-stakes game of greed, of course! . . . Like Succession meets Knives Out, or in other words, an absolute page-turner.” —Marie Claire
“A peek behind the velvet curtain of extreme wealth and privilege.” —The Washington Post
Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder.
Meet the Agarwals, who have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion.
Raj, the patriarch and a business tycoon, is about to announce to his wife and three children the succession plan for his multimillon-dollar Delhi-based company. Shalini, the fragile matriarch, is ready to have her husband to herself after years of sacrifice to the family business. Myra, the golden child, owner of the island and host of the reunion, is, unbeknownst to her family, on the brink of bankruptcy. Aseem, the son and supposed heir, is torn between his love for his wife and his duty to family. Aisha, the youngest, a party girl whose antics are legendary, can’t pass up an opportunity to wreak havoc. And then there’s Zoe, Aseem’s wife, the outsider whose #InstaPerfect life is built on a foundation of lies.
They’ve all got secrets they would die to protect. Who will survive this high-stakes reunion, and who will become a victim of their own greed? One thing is certain: this family gathering will shatter more than just their illusions of unity.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sakhlecha's disappointing latest (after Can You See Me Now?) begins like a golden age whodunit: a wealthy family gathers on an isolated island to divide up an inheritance. But Sakhlecha's ambitions are more anthropological than Agatha Christie's—murder comes at the climax, rather than in the story's opening pages, and the focus is squarely on the power dynamics among the Agarwal clan. The patriarch, Raj, plans to hand over his petrochemical company to his only son, Aseem. The gathering is hosted by golden child Myra, whose seemingly perfect life masks significant inner turmoil. Aisha, the younger daughter, brings along her unsuitable fiancé, while Aseem's wife, Zoe, butts heads with overbearing matriarch Shalini, who insists on controlling every aspect of Zoe's pregnancy. The slow-burn structure does Sakhlecha few favors: traditional mystery fans will be disappointed that the puzzle plot suggested by the locale never materializes, while readers of psychological suspense will lose patience with the protracted excavation of each character's secrets. Once those secrets are revealed, they hardly warrant the cataclysmic conclusion. This uneasy mash-up of Succession and Big Little Lies adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
