Books by Kiran Desai
“On the surface, this is the love story of Sonia, a writer, and Sunny, a journalist, both of whom are to varying degrees torn between India and America. While that thread is fascinating in itself, this is a multilayered novel that encompasses so much else. It unfolds across continents and generations, exploring not just Sonia and Sunny’s entwined lives but also the delicate, liminal spaces between two worlds.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Novelist
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
The Indian author Kiran Desai's second novel leaps between the Himalayan foothills and New York City, in a purposefully dislocated narrative that interweaves the story of the violent 1980s rebellion of ethnic Nepalese in Kalimpong, West Bengal, with the emotional isolation and instability of immigrant life.
Interviews where books by Kiran Desai were recommended
Booker Prize-Winning Novels
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize was Orbital, by Samantha Harvey, the first novel to win the prize that’s set in space. Below, our list of all the Booker Prize-winning novels of the last twenty years.
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year’s Booker Prize panel, about their 2025 shortlist: a varied line-up of six novels, from a work of historical fiction set in a frozen rural England to an experimental ‘Rorschach blot’ of a novel told in two conflicting parts.
