About the Book:

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. 

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.

About the Author:

Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, was educated in India, England and the United States, and now lives in New York

She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, which was published to unanimous acclaim in over 22 countries, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker Prize in 2006, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. 

In 2015, the Economic Times listed her as one of 20 most influential global Indian women.