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Kiran Desai to make comeback with new novel in September 2025
The novel will explore the lives of two Indians in the United States as they grapple with cultural, familial, and historical forces shaping their identities
Kiran Desai / Image- americanacademy.de
Indian American author Kiran Desai, known for her Booker Prize-winning ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, is set to return with a new novel after nearly two decades.
Titled ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’, the book will be released in September 2025. It has been described as an epic love story exploring the lives of two Indians in the United States as they grapple with cultural, familial, and historical forces shaping their identities.
The novel is a sweeping tale that delves into themes of love, solitude, and displacement. “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 globalised world,” said Desai in a statement.
Commenting on the upcoming novel, Manasi Subramaniam, at Penguin Random House India, said, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny dazzles with its ambition—intimate in its details, epic in its reach. Balancing critique with compassion and sentiment with intellect, it slices through the polite facades of privilege to expose the weight of familial love, the violence of class, and the ache of displacement.”
Born in Chandigarh, India, and later emigrating to the United States at the age of 16, Desai has received widespread recognition for her previous works which often explore diasporic themes.
Her debut novel, ‘Hullabaloo’ in the Guava Orchard, won the Betty Trask Award in 1998. Her 2006 novel, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, won the Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was translated into over 40 languages. In addition to her fiction, Desai has contributed to several notable publications, including The New Yorker and The Guardian, and has been honored with accolades such as the Columbia University Medal for Excellence and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Desai, who studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University, has been recognized as one of the most influential global Indian women by The Economic Times. In addition to her novels, she has contributed reportage, including her account “Night Claims the Godavari” in AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India.
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