The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | Kiran Desai in conversation with Nandini Nair

Booker Prize–winning author Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, unfolds as an epic yet intimate story of modern love, filial duty, and generational longing. At once philosophical, comic, and uncanny, Desai navigates the complexities of class, race and legacy, capturing the elusive quest for happiness in our globalised world. In conversation with Nandini Nair, Desai explores how these entwined stories reflect the quiet radicalism of a chance connection. Presented by Rajasthan Patrika Nandini Nair is a literary critic, currently with the New India Foundation, a unique nonprofit organisation for the writing of books on modern India. She has been an arts journalist for nearly two decades, having worked previously for Open Magazine, The Indian Express and The Hindu. Follow us on – Website - https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/ Facebook -   / jaipurlitfest   YouTube -    / jprlitfest   Instagram -   / jaipurlitfest   Twitter -   / jaipurlitfest   #jaipurliteraturefestival2026 #loneliness #literature