(New York) A new novel from author Kiran Desai, her first fiction since the release almost 20 years ago of Loss of inheritancewinner of the Booker Prize, will be published next fall.
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Hillel Italy
Associated Press
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is expected to be published in September by Hogarth, a subsidiary of Random House Publishing Group. Hogarth calls the novel a “grand narrative” of two Indians finding their way to the United States amid historical and personal forces.
“Using the comic lens of a never-ending love story between two modern Indians, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny examines Western and Eastern notions and manifestations of love and loneliness as they play out on the geographic and emotional terrain of today’s globalized world,” Desai said in a statement Wednesday. “I think only a novel can get to the raw truth of what people think and negotiate in private. »
Desai, 53, made his debut in 1998 with Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchardthe comic tale of a young man who chooses to spend his life in a tree.
Eight years later, she received international recognition for Loss of inheritancepublished in the United States by Atlantic Monthly Press. Winner of the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Prize, her novel follows the lives of an undocumented Indian immigrant in the United States and an anglicized Indian woman in the state of West Bengal. Desai was 35 when she received the Booker Prize, the youngest woman at the time to win the prize.
Desai’s publisher at Hogarth, David Ebershoff, said in a statement that his new book is “an expansive, multi-generational tale, a novel infused with equal doses of heart and wit.”
