The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss “A transcendent triumph . . . not so much a novel as a marvel.” —The New York Times Book Review “A spectacular literary achievement. I wanted to pack a little suitcase and stay inside this book forever.” —Ann Patchett “Devastating, lyrical, and deeply romantic . . . an unmitigated joy to read.” —Khaled Hosseini “Vast and immersive. . . . No detail, large or small, seems to escape Desai’s attention, every character (in a huge cast) feels fully realized, and the writing moves with consummate fluency between an array of modes: philosophical, comic, earnest, emotional, and uncanny.” —2025 Booker Prize Jury (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Kiley Reid, Roddy Doyle, and Sarah Jessica Parker) “Marvelous. . . . Desa