Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of three novels, most recently The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years. It is an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. In addition to being heralded as one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year, the novel was shortlisted for the Booker, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian and many other publications. The New York Times Book Review calls the book “a transcendent triumph . . . not so much a novel as a marvel.” Her last novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Set in the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life, Desai “manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence,” writes Pankaj Mishra in the New York Times Book Review. Desai’s first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over 22 countries. Born in India, she came to the US when she was 16 and now lives in New York City.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Inheritance of Loss
