Kiran Desai returns with new novel after 20 years, Kiran Desai, new novel, Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Booker Prize, Inheritance of Loss

New York: Kiran Desai, whose Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss made a lasting impact nearly 20 years ago, is set to release her first fiction book since then next fall.

Her upcoming novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, will be published in September by Hogarth, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. The book is described as a “sweeping tale” following the lives of two Indians navigating life in the U.S., shaped by both personal struggles and broader historical forces.

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“Using the comic lens of an endlessly unresolved romance between two modern Indians, ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ examines Western and Eastern notions and manifestations of love and solitude as they play out across the geographical and emotional terrain of today’s globalized world,” Desai said in a statement Wednesday. “I think only a novel can get at the raw truth regarding what people are privately thinking and negotiating.”

Desai, 53, began her career in 1998 with Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, a humorous story about a young man who opts to live in a tree. Eight years later, her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, earned international praise. Released in the U.S. by Atlantic Monthly Press, the novel explores the lives of an undocumented Indian immigrant in the U.S. and a Westernized Indian in West Bengal. At 35, Desai became the youngest woman to win the Booker Prize, along with the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Desai’s editor at Hogarth, David Ebershoff, said in a statement that her new book is “an expansive tale of multiple generations, a novel infused with equal amounts of heart and mind.”

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