The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
Booker Prize · 2025 · ShortlistKirkus Prize (Fiction) · 2025 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2025 | Shortlist |
| Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction | 2025 | Shortlist |
About This Book
After nearly two decades, Kiran Desai returns with this multigenerational novel following two sisters from their origins in post-Partition India through the Indian diaspora in England and America, exploring inheritance, belonging, and the forms that loneliness takes across a lifetime.
About the Author
Kiran DesaiIndian
Kiran Desai is an Indian author born in Delhi, the daughter of author Anita Desai. She lived in Punjab and Mumbai, attending Cathedral and John Connon School, before leaving India at age fourteen. She spent a year in England with her mother, then moved to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University. Read more →
