Kiran Desai
Praise for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is an utter triumph . . . it’s one of the strongest contenders on this year’s Booker longlist . . . Sentence by sentence, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny makes for bli ...
Lucy Scholes, Daily Telegraph (5 stars)
A novel of stunning scope and ambition . . . Remarkable, refreshing, insistently hopeful . . . Desai’s great gift is texture. Her writing gives even minor characters a sense of history and gravity. Her people never ...
Ruby Eastwood , Irish Times
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny has the feel, and at nearly 700 pages, the size, of a multigenerational epic. For all the book’s great scope, though, no detail is too granular to escape Desai’s notice. Thro ...
Chris Power, Guardian
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is an utter triumph . . . it’s one of the strongest contenders on this year’s Booker longlist . . . Sentence by sentence, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny makes for bli ...
Lucy Scholes, Daily Telegraph (5 stars)
A novel of stunning scope and ambition . . . Remarkable, refreshing, insistently hopeful . . . Desai’s great gift is texture. Her writing gives even minor characters a sense of history and gravity. Her people never ...
Ruby Eastwood , Irish Times
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny has the feel, and at nearly 700 pages, the size, of a multigenerational epic. For all the book’s great scope, though, no detail is too granular to escape Desai’s notice. Thro ...
Chris Power, Guardian
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is an utter triumph . . . it’s one of the strongest contenders on this year’s Booker longlist . . . Sentence by sentence, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny makes for bli ...
Lucy Scholes, Daily Telegraph (5 stars)
A novel of stunning scope and ambition . . . Remarkable, refreshing, insistently hopeful . . . Desai’s great gift is texture. Her writing gives even minor characters a sense of history and gravity. Her people never ...
Ruby Eastwood , Irish Times
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny has the feel, and at nearly 700 pages, the size, of a multigenerational epic. For all the book’s great scope, though, no detail is too granular to escape Desai’s notice. Thro ...
Chris Power, Guardian
