Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns
The youngest winner of the Booker Prize fell silent. Now she's back with a new novel.
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With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, becoming - at the time - the youngest person ever to do so. She was thirty-five. Then: silence. 19 years of it, before another novel emerged - this year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.
Desai joins Tanjil Rashid on The New Society to discuss her latest novel, and why it was 19 years in the making.
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