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LIVING WORLDS

Manchester Literature Festival brings acclaimed author Kiran Desai to Manchester Museum to discuss her long-awaited new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, an epic, intimate love story set across India, the USA and Mexico, spanning a decade of shifting politics.

Twenty years after winning the Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran returns with her most ambitious novel yet – a sweeping, tender, and sharply observed story of two young people caught between family, tradition, and their own desires. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny navigate the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next.

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear one of the most brilliant literary voices of our time.