Kiran Desai returns to the Booker shortlist with 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny', blending global themes with deeply ...
Nearly two decades after she became the toast of the literary world with ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, Kiran Desai has returned ...
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Kiran Desai’s book of life

Twenty years in the making, Desai’s bravura, Booker-shortlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, surrealist ...
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